When a woman hath ceased to be quite the same to us, it matters little how different she becomes.

The assailant is often in the right; that the assailed is always.

A critic is never too severe when he only detects the faults of an author. But he is worse than too severe when, in consequence of this detection, be presumes to place himself on a level with genius.

I strove with none; for none was worth my strife.

There is nothing on earth divine except humanity.

Justice is often pale and melancholy; but Gratitude, her daughter, is constantly in the flow of spirits and the bloom of loveliness.

I sometimes think that the most plaintive ditty has brought a fuller joy and of longer duration to its composer that the conquest of Persia to the Macedonian.