The law of heaven and earth is life for life.

Oh! too convincing--dangerously dear-- In woman's eye the unanswerable tear! That weapon of her weakness she can wield, To save, subdue--at once her spear and shield.

Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.

They truly mourn, that mourn without a witness.

That prose is a verse, and verse is a prose; convincing all, by demonstrating plain – poetic souls delight in prose insane

To be perfectly original one should think much and read little, and this is impossible, for one must have read before one has learnt to think.

There is no traitor like him whose domestic treason plants the poniard within the breast that trusted to his truth