The moment we indulge our affections, the earth is metamorphosed.

A deep man believes that the evil eye can whither, the heart's blessing can heal, and that love can overcome all odds.

It is sublime to think and say of another, I need never meet, or speak, or write to him: we need not reinforce ourselves, or send tokens of remembrance; I rely on him as on myself: if he did thus and thus, I know it was right.

Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life.

Never read any book that is not a year old.

Nothing can be more delicate without being fantastical, nothing more firm and based in nature and sentiment, than the courtship and mutual carriage of the sexes.

The men who carry their points do not need to inquire of their constituents what they should say, but are themselves the country which they represent: nowhere are its emotions or opinions so instant and so true as in them; nowhere so pure from a selfish infusion.