All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.
Patriotism depends as much on mutual suffering as on mutual success; and it is by that experience of all fortunes and all feelings that a great national character is created.
Romance has been elegantly defined as the offspring of fiction and love.
The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can ever end.
Apologies only account for that which they do not alter.
Man is only truly great when he acts from the passions; never irresistible but when he appeals to the imagination.