A widow's refusal of a lover is seldom so explicit as to exclude hope.
It is better to be thought perverse than insincere.
A good man will not engage even in a national cause, without examining the justice of it.
Those who respect age, deserve to live to be old, and to be respected themselves.
'Passion' a word which involves so many feelings. I feel it when we touch; I feel it when we kiss; I feel it when I look at you. For you are my passion; my one true love.
A feeling heart is a blessing that no one, who has it, would be without; and it is a moral security of innocence; since the heart that is able to partake of the distress of another, cannot wilfully give it.