The heart that loved would have stimulated the head that thought.

Don't fancy that people are only better because they are in love, but they are greater, bolder, brighter, more daring in danger, and more ready in every emergency.

So wonder-working is the real passion that even in the base mockery of Love men have risen to genius.

Look what it made Petrarch, and I might say Byron too, though he never loved worthy of the name.' 'And how came you to know all this, cousin mine?
I'm really curious to know that.' 'I was reared in Italy, Cousin Dick, and I have made a deep study of nature through French novels.' Now there was a laughing devilry in her eye as she said this that terribly puzzled the young fellow, for just at the very moment her enthusiasm had begun to stir his breast, her merry mockery wafted it away as with a storm-wind.
'I wish I knew if you were serious,' said he gravely.
'Just as serious as you were when you spoke of being ruined.' 'I was so, I pledge my honour.

The conversation I reported to you really took place; and when you joined me, I was gravely deliberating with myself whether I should take a header into a deep pool or enlist as a soldier.' 'Fie, fie! how ignoble all that is.