What we do not understand we have no right to judge

The ideal, after all, is true than the real: for the ideal is the eternal element in perishable things.

Dreams are excursions into the limbo of things, a semi-deliverance from the human prison.

Sympathy is the first condition of criticism.

Before giving advice we must have secured its acceptance, or, rather, have made it desired.

Sacrifice, which is the passion of great souls, has never been the law of societies.

Love is faith and one faith leads to another.