It is a new road to happiness, if you have strength enough to castigate a little the various impulses that sway you in turn.

Towers in a modern town are a frill and a survival; they seem like the raised hands of the various churches, afraid of being overlooked, and saying to the forgetful public, Here I am! Or perhaps they are rival lightning rods, saying to the emanations of divine grace, "Please strike here!

Fear first created the gods.

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval. The dark background which death supplies brings out the tender colours of life in all their purity.

Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

Nothing can so pierce the soul as the uttermost sigh of the body.