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I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

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To chase the glowing hours with flying feet.

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For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

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Between two worlds life hovers like a star, twixt night and morn, upon the horizon's verge.

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For in itself a thought, a slumbering thought, is capable of years, and curdles a long life into one hour.

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The dew of compassion is a tear.

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A wise man more than laughter from a dunce.

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I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.

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My attachment has neither the blindness of the beginning, nor the microscopic accuracy of the close of such liaisons.

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Switzerland is a curst, selfish, swinish country of brutes, placed in the most romantic region of the world.

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If we must have a tyrant, let him at least be a gentleman who has been bred to the business, and let us fall by the axe and not by the butcher's cleaver.

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Oh! there is an organ playing in the street - a waltz too! I must leave off to listen.

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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.

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Out of chaos God made a world, and out of high passions comes a people.

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

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I know that two and two make four - and should be glad to prove it too if I could - though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

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Man's love is of man's life a part; it is a woman's whole existence. In her first passion, a woman loves her lover, in all the others all she loves is love.

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The dead have been awakened - shall I sleep? The world's at war with tyrants - shall I crouch? the harvest's ripe - and shall I pause to reap? I slumber not; the thorn is in my couch; Each day a trumpet soundeth in mine ear, its echo in my heart.

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It is very certain that the desire of life prolongs it.

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I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains.

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