Innocence in genius, and candor in power, are both noble qualities.

What is love, if it can calculate and provide against its own decay?

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

Divine Wisdom, intending to detain us some time on earth, has done well to cover with a veil the prospect of the life to come; for if our sight could clearly distinguish the opposite bank, who would remain on this tempestuous coast of time?

Happy the land where the writers are sad, the merchants satisfied, the rich melancholic, and the populace content.

Love which is only an episode in the life of men, is the entire history of the life of women.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.