“Love will find a way through paths where wolves fear to prey.”

“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, there is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar; I love not Man the less, but Nature more.”

“Friendship may, and often does, grow into love, but love never subsides into friendship.”

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

“Friendship is Love without his wings!”

“Absence - that common cure of love.”

“It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.”

“Hark! that's the nightingale Telling the self-same tale Her song told when this ancient earth was young: So echoes answered when her song was sung In the first wooded vale.”

“The angel of spring the mellow-throated nightingale.”