But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.

Poetry and art and knowledge are sacred and pure.

A man falling into dark waters seeks a momentary footing even on sliding stones.

I take a dose of mathematics every day to prevent my brain from becoming quite soft.

The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

If the past is not to bind us, where can duty lie? We should have no law but the inclination of the moment.

Nothing is so good as it seems beforehand.