The absence of the beloved, short though it may last, always lasts too long.

Reason is not what decides love.

There is something inexpressibly charming in falling in love and, surely, the whole pleasure lies in the fact that love isn't lasting.

Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.

I recover my property wherever I find it.

You are my peace, my solace, my salvation.

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.