All sweeping assertions are erroneous.

To be rude is as good as being clever.

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

Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

Hopes and regrets are the sweetest links of existence.

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.

Do anything but love; or if thou lovest and art a woman, hide thy love from him whom thou dost worship; never let him know how dear he is; flit like a bird before him; lead him from tree to tree, from flower to flower; but be not won, or thou wilt, like that bird, when caught and caged, be left to pine neglected and perish in forgetfulness.