A ruin should always be protected but never repaired - thus may we witness full the lingering legacies of the past.

It is only when I dally with what I am about, look back and aside, instead of keeping my eyes straight forward, that I feel these cold sinkings of the heart.

Faces that have charmed us the most escape us the soonest.

It is the privilege of tale-tellers to open their story in an inn, the free rendezvous of all travellers, and where the humour of each displays itself, without ceremony or restraint.

So faithful in love, and so dauntless in war, There never was knight like young Lochinvar.

What skilful limner e'er would choose To paint the rainbow's varying hues, Unless to mortal it were given To dip his brush in dyes of heaven?

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