Try to take hold of your sensibility, and use it as if it were a faculty, like vision.

I protest against any absolute conclusion.

Doesn't this quote just call up feelings of comfort and home? Comparing friendship to the nest a bird lives in and builds with loving determination reminds me that having a solid relationship takes work and dedication. And yet, when you succeed in crafting a friendship, you can rest in the comfort it provides.

God, immortality, duty - how inconceivable the first, how unbelievable the second, how peremptory and absolute the third.

The beauty of a lovely woman is like music.

It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.

What quarrel, what harshness, what unbelief in each other can subsist in the presence of a great calamity, when all the artificial vesture of our life is gone, and we are all one with each other in primitive mortal needs?