A mother is a mother still, The holiest thing alive.

Courage multiplies the chances of success by sometimes making opportunities, and always availing itself of them; and in this sense Fortune may be said to favor fools by those who, however prudent in their opinion, are deficient in valor and enterprise.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches with spire steeples which point as with a silent finger to the sky and stars.

Oh worse than everything, is kindness counterfeiting absent love.

A savage place! As holy and enchanted/As e'er beneath the waning moon was haunted/By woman wailing for her Demon Lover!

Veracity does not consist in saying, but in the intention of communicating the truth.

Ah! well a-day! what evil looks / Had I from old and young! / Instead of the cross, the Albatross / About my neck was hung.