Oh! too convincing - dangerously dear - In woman`s eye the unanswerable tear!
For the sword outwears its sheath, And the soul wears out the breast, And the heart must pause for breath, And love itself have rest.
Always laugh when you can. It is cheap medicine.
A pretty woman is a welcome guest.
(Poetry) is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
How sweet and soothing is this hour of calm! I thank thee, night! for thou has chased away these horrid bodements which, amidst the throng, I could not dissipate; and with the blessing of thy benign and quiet influence now will I to my couch, although to rest is almost wronging such a night as this.
Let us not unman each other; part at once; all farewells should be sudden, when forever
In solitude, where we are least alone.
I`ll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.
He possessed beauty without vanity, strength without insolence; courage without ferocity; and all the virtues of man without his vices
Wives in their husbands` absences grow subtler, and daughters sometimes run off with the butler
What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as little.
I wish he would explain his explanation
Yes, Love indeed is light from heaven; A spark of that immortal fire with angels shared, by Allah given to lift from earth our low desire.
Fame is the thirst of youth.
For truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.
There is no instinct like that of the heart.
The dew of compassion is a tear.
Absence - that common cure of love.
`Tis very certain the desire of life prolongs it.
I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.