Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

The Italians say that a beautiful woman by her smiles draws tears from our purse.

The smallest pebble in the well of truth has its peculiar meaning, and will stand when man's best monuments have passed away.

Of dead kingdoms I recall the soul, sitting amid their ruins

If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.

It is godlike to unloose the spirit, and forget yourself in thought.

A lamp is lit in woman's eye; that souls, else lost on earth, remember angels by.