It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.

Prolonged endurance tames the bold.

For the night Shows stars and women in a better light.

For a man to become a poet (witness Petrarch and Dante), he must be in love, or miserable.

He learned the arts of riding, fencing, gunnery, And how to scale a fortress - or a nunnery.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky.