It is a beautiful trait in the lover’s character, that they think no evil of the object loved.
All things come round to him who will but wait.
The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
The rapture of pursuing is the prize the vanquished gain.
I am weary of your quarrels, Weary of your wars and bloodshed, Weary of your prayers for vengeance, Of your wranglings and dissensions.
It is folly to pretend that one ever wholly recovers from a disappointed passion. Such wounds always leave a scar. There are faces I can never look upon without emotion, there are names I can never hear spoken without almost starting.
Many have genius, but, wanting art, are forever dumb. The two must go together to form the great poet, painter, or sculptor.
We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.
In the long run men hit only what they aim at.
And when she was good she was very very good. But when she was bad she was horrid.
Ye are better than all the ballads That ever were sung or said; For ye are living poems, And all the rest are dead.
Fear is the virtue of slaves; but the heart that loveth is willing.
Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.
The story, from beginning to end, I found again in a heart of a friend.
Stay, stay at home, my heart and rest; Home-keeping hearts are happiest.
Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today.
There are things of which I may not speak; There are dreams that cannot die; There are thoughts that make the strong heart weak, And bring a pallor into the cheek, And a mist before the eye.
We are all architects of faith, ever living in these walls of time.
A noble type of good. Heroic womanhood.
Art is long, and Time is fleeting.