"Unthread the bold eye of rebellion, And welcome home again discarded faith."
"They do not love that do not show their love."
"If she be made of white and red, Her faults will ne'er be known, For blushing cheeks by faults are bred, And fears by pale white shown: Then if she fear or be to blame, By this you shall not know, For still her cheeks possess the same, Which native s."
"Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge."
"Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow."
"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."
"We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to."
"The way of paradoxes is the way of truth."
"It was the passions about whose origin we deceived ourselves that tyrannized most strongly over us. Our weakest motives were those of whose nature we were conscious. It often happened that when we thought we were experimenting on others we were really experimenting on ourselves."
"Her love was trembling in laughter on her lips."