The strongest feelings assigned to the conscience are not moral feelings at all; they express merely physical antipathies.

... so in love the heart surrenders itself entirely to the one being that has known how to touch it. That being is not selected; it is recognised and obeyed.

The diseases which destroy a man are no less natural than the instincts which preserve him.

It is rash to intrude upon the piety of others: both the depth and the grace of it elude the stranger.

The loneliest woman in the world is a woman without a close woman friend.

To be bewitched is not to be saved, though all the magicians and aesthetes in the world should pronounce it to be so.

The Universe, so far as we can observe it, is a wonderful and immense engine; its extent, its order, its beauty, its cruelty, makes it alike impressive.