The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.

We cannot reform our forefathers.

There are natures in which, if they love us, we are conscious of having a sort of baptism and consecration.

I hold it a blasphemy to say that a man ought not to fight against authority: there is no great religion and no great freedom that has not done it, in the beginning.

May I reach That purest heaven - be to other souls The cup of strength in some great agony; Enkindle generous ardor, feed pure love, Beget the smiles that have no cruelty. Be the sweet presence of a good diffused, And in the diffusion ever more intense! So shall I join the choir invisible Whose music is the gladness of the world.

Of new acquaintances one can never be sure because one likes them one day that it will be so the next. Of old friends one is sure that it will be the same yesterday, today, and forever.