“Cats are a mysterious kind of folk.”

“Each age has deemed the new-born yearThe fittest time for festal cheer.”

“I envy thee not thy faith, which is ever in thy mouth but never in thy heart nor in thy practice”

“There are few men who do not look back in secret to some period of their youth, at which a sincere and early affection was repulsed, or betrayed, or became abortive through opposing circumstances. It is these little passages of secret history, which leave a tinge of romance in every bosom, scarce permitting us, even in the most busy or advanced period of life, to listen with total indifference to a tale of true love.”

“One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters through a marsh, without either honour or observation.”

“Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, and men below, and the saints above, for love is heaven, and heaven is love. ”

“Silence, maiden; thy tongue outruns thy discretion.”