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"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
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"Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her."
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"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
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"I'm so involved in melancholy."
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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
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"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
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"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."
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"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet... I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me."
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"In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking."
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"He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height."
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"But what is past my help is past my care."
Care
"The true way to gain much, is never to desire to gain too much."
Desire
"Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she will never fly with them to heaven."
Faith
"There is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees."
Man
"Oh, love will make a dog howl in rhyme."
Love
"Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted."
People
"Kiss till the cow comes home."
Home
"Let no man fear to die, we love to sleep all, and death is but the sounder sleep."
Death
"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
Melancholy
"It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it."
Argument
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