I like people to be saints; but I want them to be first and superlatively honest men.
To love deeply in one direction makes us more loving in all others.
The law of common sense.
Virtue is the daughter of Religion; Repentance, her adopted child,--a poor orphan who, without the asylum which she offers, would not know where to hide her sole treasure, her tears!
Impassioned characters never attain their mark till they have overshot it.
Indifferent souls never part. Impassioned souls part, and return to one another, because they can do no better.