Eros has degenerated; he began by introducing order and harmony, and now he brings back chaos.

It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.

It is, I fear, but a vain show of fulfilling the heathen precept, ''Know thyself,'' and too often leads to a self- estimate which will subsist in the absence of that fruit by which alone the quality of the tree is made evident.

After all, the true seeing is within.

Knowledge slowly builds up what Ignorance in an hour pulls down.

A man never lies with more delicious languor under the influence of a passion than when he has persuaded himself that he shall subdue it to-morrow.

For we all of us, grave or light, get our thoughts entangled in metaphors, and act fatally on the strength of them.