Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Men are in numberless instances qualified for certain things, for no other reason than because they are qualified for nothing else.

The essence of poetry is will and passion.

A King (as such) is not a great man. He has great power, but it is not his own.

Greatness is great power, producing great effects. It is not enough that a man has great power in himself, he must shew it to all the world in a way that cannot be hid or gainsaid.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.

Though familiarity may not breed contempt, it takes off the edge of admiration.