He loves but lightly who his love can tell.

Perhaps out there, somewhere, someone is sighing for your absence; and with this thought, my soul begins to breathe.

Reality is always the foe of famous names.

It is more honorable to be raised to a throne than to be born to one. Fortune bestows the one, merit obtains the other.

I know and love the good, yet, ah! the worst pursue.

Death is a sleep that ends our dreaming. Oh, that we may be allowed to wake before death wakes us.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.