Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.
The lover's pleasure, like that of the hunter, is in the chase, and the brightest beauty loses half its merit, as the flower its perfume, when the willing hand can reach it too easily. There must be doubt; there must be difficulty and danger.
What I have to say is far more important than how long my eyelashes are.
Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.
A Christmas gambol oft could cheer The poor man's heart through half the year.
But with morning cool repentance came.