Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

[Allegory] is a flight by which the human wit attempts at one and the same time to investigate two objects, and consequently is fitted only to the most exalted geniuses.

The words of kindness are more healing to a drooping heart than balm or honey.

I endeavor not to conceal that I believe there is a great mixture of desire in the passion which is called love--or rather, without any far-fetched strain on words, it may be called the companion of love.

Their virtues lived in their children. The family changed its persons but not its manners, and they continued a blessing to the world from generation to generation.

I was condemned to be beheaded, or burnt, as the king pleased; and he was graciously pleased, from the great remains of his love, to choose the mildest sentence.

If modesty and candor are necessary to an author in his judgment of his own works, no less are they in his reader.