Everything disturbs an absent lover.

He who reforms, God assists.

It seldom happens that any felicity comes so pure as not to be tempered and allayed by some mixture of sorrow.

Modesty, tis a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.

My heart is wax molded as she pleases, but enduring as marble to retain.

It is one thing to write as poet and another to write as a historian: the poet can recount or sing about things not as they were, but as they should have been, and the historian must write about them not as they should have been, but as they were, without adding or subtracting anything from the truth.

That which we are capable of feeling, we are capable of saying.