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A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all. Circumspection and devotion are a contradiction in terms.

A well proportioned mind is one which shows no particular bias; one of which we may safely say that it will never cause its owner to be confined as a madman, tortured as a heretic, or crucified as a blasphemer. Also, on the other hand, that it will never cause him to be applauded as a prophet, revered as a priest, or exalted as a king. Its usual blessings are happiness and mediocrity.

Like the British Constitution, she owes her success in practice to her inconsistencies in principle.

I have seldom known a man cunning with his brush who was not simple with his tongue; or, indeed, any skill in particular that was not allied to general stupidity.

The heath and changes of weather were quite blotted out from their eyes for the present. They were enclosed in a sort of luminous mist, which hid from them surroundings of any inharmonious colour, and gave to all things the character of light. When it rained they were charmed, because they could remain indoors together all day with such a show of reason; when it was fine they were charmed, because they could sit together on the hills. They were like those double stars which revolve round and round each other, and from a distance appear to be one.

It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.

The rural world was not ripe for him. A man should be only partially before his time—to be completely to the vanward in aspirations is fatal to fame. Had Philip's warlike son been intellectually so far ahead as to have attempted civilization without bloodshed, he would have been twice the godlike hero that he seemed, but nobody would have heard of an Alexander.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

You calculated how to be uncalculating, and are natural by art!

Work hard and be poor, do nothing and get more.

"Ah," she said to herself, "want of an object to live for—that's all is the matter with me!"

And at home by the fire, whenever you look up, there I shall be — and whenever I look up, there will be you.