Dear sensibility! source inexhausted of all that's precious in our joys, or costly in our sorrows!... eternal fountain of our feel...ings!--'tis here I trace thee--and this is thy divinity which stirs within me ...--all comes from thee, great--great SENSORIUM of the world!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Delicious essence! how refreshing art thou to nature! how strongly are all its powers and all its weaknesses on thy side! how swee...tly dost thou mix with the blood, and help it through the most difficult and tortuous passages to the heart!LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
[I have] been in love with one princess or another almost all my life, and I hope I shall go on so, till I die, being firmly persu...aded, that if ever I do a mean action, it must be in some interval betwixt one passion and another.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When the situation is, what we would wish, nothing is so ill- timed as to hint at the circumstances which make it so: you thank Fo...rtune ... you had reason--the heart knew it, and was satisfied; and who but an English philosopher would have sent notices of it to the brain to reverse the judgment?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have always observed, when there is as much sour as sweet in a compliment, that an Englishman is eternally at a loss within hims...elf, whether to take it, or let it alone: a Frenchman never is.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
L'amour n'est rien sans sentiment. Et le sentiment est encore moins sans amour.... (Love is nothing without sentiment. / And sentiment is even less without love.)LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »