Gabrielle

“Benign Philosophy, by degrees, strips from us most of our vices, and all our mistakes; it is she that first teaches us the right.”
― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

“This thing of darkness I
Acknowledge mine.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest

“Had we but wisdom, thou wouldst have no Divinity, O Fortune: it is we that make thee into a Goddess!”
― Juvenal, The Sixteen Satires

“His roving eyes began to moisten, and before the hymn was ended, scalding tears rolled out of a fountain that had long seemed dry, and followed each other down those cheeks that had oftener felt the storms of heaven, than any testimonials of weakness.”
― James Fenimore Cooper, The Last of the Mohicans