There are no more thorough prudes than those who have some little secret to hide.
Sex is the most respectable and holy thing in all creation, the most serious act in life.
fretting at trouble only doubles it.
The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm.
Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.
No human creature can give orders to love.