Diffidence and awkwardness are antidotes to love.
In what we really understand, we reason but little.
Cant is the voluntary overcharging or prolongation of a real sentiment; hypocrisy is the setting up a pretension to a feeling you never had and have no wish for.
We find many things to which the prohibition of them constitutes the only temptation.
Grace in women has more effect than beauty.
Genius is native to the soil where it grows — is fed by the air, and warmed by the sun — and is not a hot - house plant or an exotic.