Good manners require space and time.
Poetry has been the guardian angel of humanity in all ages.
Fiction is the microscope of truth.
Thou makest the man, O Sorrow!--yes, the whole man,--as the crucible gold.
There is no man more complete than the one who travelled a lot, who changed the shape of his thoughts and his life twenty times.
Nature has given women two painful but heavenly gifts, which distinguish them, and often raise them above human nature,--compassion and enthusiasm. By compassion, they devote themselves; by enthusiasm they exalt themselves.