The heart's hushed secret in the soft dark eye.

I have no parting sigh to give, so take my parting smile.

I think hearts are very much like glasses. If they do not break with the first ring, they usually last a considerable time.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

It is a curious fact, but a fact it is, that your witty people are the most hard-hearted in the world. The truth is, fancy destroys feeling. The quick eye to the ridiculous turns every thing to the absurd side; and the neat sentence, the lively allusion, and the odd simile, invest what they touch with something of their own buoyant nature. Humor is of the heart, and has its tears; but wit is of the head, and has only smiles - and the majority of those are bitter.

I will look on the stars and look on thee, and read the page of thy destiny.

How very satisfactory those discussions must be, where each party retains their own opinion!