All men, even the most surly are influenced by affection.

Christianity is within a man, even as he is gifted with reason; it is associated with your mother's chair, and with the first remembered, tones of her blessed voice.

Poetry gives most pleasure when only generally and not perfectly understood.

I do not call the sod under my feet my country; but language-religion-government-blood-identity in these makes men of one country.

Her skin was white as leprosy.

Women have their heads in their hearts. Man seems to have been destined for a superior being; as things are, I think women generally better creatures than men. They have weaker appetites and weaker intellects but much stronger affections. A man with a bad heart has been sometimes saved by a strong head; but a corrupt woman is lost forever.

Force yourself to reflect on what you read, paragraph by paragraph.