Affection can withstand very severe storms of vigor, but not a long polar frost of indifference.

There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.

Besides, Rose Bradwardine, beautiful and amiable as we have described her, had not precisely the sort of beauty or merit which captivates a romantic imagination in early youth. She was too frank, too confiding, too kind; amiable qualities, undoubtedly, but destructive of the marvellous, with which a youth of imagination delights to dress the empress of his affections.

Without courage there cannot be truth, and without truth there can be no other virtue.

Many a law, many a commandment have I broken, but my word never.

In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.

It is more difficult to look upon victory than upon battle.