A flower may be beautiful all on its own, but a person is never truly beautiful unless someone's eyes show him that he is beautiful.

Love is too precious to be ashamed of.

After a good, successful torture, she was as happy as I ever saw her. I guess everyone needed a hobby.

You cannot die of grief, though it feels as if you can. A heart does not actually break, though sometimes your chest aches as if it is breaking. Grief dims wit…

She's adorned Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,- The truest mirror that an honest wife Can see her beauty in.

She is not fair to outward view *As many maidens be; Her loveliness I never knew Until she smiled on me: Oh! then I saw her eye was bright, A well of love, a s…

This wild swan of a world is no hunter's game. Better bullets than yours would miss the white breast Better mirrors than yours would crack in the flame. Does i…