That one true heart was left behind! What feeling do we ever find, to equal among human kind , a dog's fidelity!

If Galileo had said in verse that the world moved, the inquisition might have let him alone.

I have felt lately, more and more, that my present way of living is bad in every respect.

He wished she knew his impressions; but he would as soon have thought of carrying an odour in a net as of attempting to convey the intangibilities of his feeling in the coarse meshes of language. So he remained silent.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Women accept their destiny more readily than men.

I agree to the conditions, Angel; because you know best what my punishment ought to be; only - only - don't make it more than I can bear!