Wine and the sun will make vinegar without any shouting to help them.

Fatally powerful as religious systems have been, human nature is stronger and wider, and though dogmas may hamper they cannot absolutely repress its growth.

If Art does not enlarge men's sympathies, it does nothing morally.

Scepticismcan never be thoroughly applied, else life would come to a standstill.

A girl of eighteen imagines the feelings behind the face that has moved her with its sympathetic youth as easily as primitive people imagined the humors of the gods in fair weather. What is she to believe in if not in this vision woven from within?

I am not magnanimous enough to like people who speak to me without seeming to see me

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.