Reputation being essentially contemporaneous, is always at the mercy of the Envious and the Ignorant. But Fame, whose very birth is posthumous, and which is only known to exist by the echo of its footsteps through congenial minds, can neither be increased nor diminished by any degree of wilfulness.

If we can still love those who have made us suffer, we love them all the more.

Fear, either as a principle or a motive, is the beginning of all evil.

Opinion has ever been stronger than law.

Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or, it may be, religion.

What we truly and earnestly aspire to be, that in some sense we are.

Avarice is to the intellect what sensuality is to the morals.