Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! - Nathaniel Hawthorne

Hatred, by a gradual and quiet process, will even be transformed to love, unless the change be impeded by a continually new irritation of the original feeling of hostility.

Strength is incomprehensible by weakness, and, therefore, the more terrible.

As a general rule, Providence seldom vouchsafes to mortals any more than just that degree of encouragement which suffices to keep them at a reasonably full exertion of their powers.