A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

It was still early, and the sun's lower limb was just free of the hill, his rays, ungenial and peering, addressed the eye rather than the touch as yet.

Let me enjoy the earth no less because the all-enacting light that fashioned forth its loveliness had other aims than my delight.

Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.

Where we are would be Paradise to me, if you would only make it so.

Everybody is so talented nowadays that the only people I care to honor as deserving real distinction are those who remain in obscurity.

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!