Gentleness is the great point to be obtained in the study of manners.

The highest triumph of art, is the truest presentation of nature.

One gets, sensitive about losing mornings after getting a little used to them with living in a country. Each one of these endlessly varied daybreaks is an opera but once performed.

Fine taste is an aspect of genius itself, and is the faculty of delicate appreciation, which makes the best effects of art our own.

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

I knelt, and with the fervor of a lip unused to the cool breath of reason, told my love.

The lily and the rose in her fair face striving for precedence.