The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

Spangling the wave with lights as vain As pleasures in the vale of pain, That dazzle as they fade.

Look at a gown of gold, and you will at least get a sleeve of it.

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.

Unless a tree has borne blossoms in spring, you will vainly look for fruit on it in autumn.

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

Tears are the softening showers which cause the seed of heaven to spring up in the human heart.