You write with ease, to show your breeding, But easy writing's vile hard reading.
She's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
Prudence, like experience, must be paid for.
Our memories are independent of our wills.
Men seldom think deeply on subjects in which they have no choice of opinion: they are fearful of encountering obstacles to their faith--as in religion--and so are content with the surface.
When delicate and feeling souls are separated, there is not a feature in the sky, not a movement of the elements, not an aspiration of the breeze, but hints some cause for a lover's apprehension.