One real world is enough.

It would be hard to conceive a system of instincts more nicely adjusted, where the constituents should represent or support one another better. The husband has an interest in protecting the wife, she in serving the husband. The weaker gains in authority and safety, the wilder and more unconcerned finds a help-mate at home to take thought of his daily necessities. Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory; children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality.

Man is as full of potential as he is of importance.

The quality of wit inspires more admiration than confidence

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt, and though a thousand later considerations may overlay and override them, they remain a background and standard for all happiness. If we trace them out we succeed.

Nature drives with a loose rein and vitality of any sort can blunder through many a predicament in which reason would despair.