Reproach is usually honest, which is more than can be said of praise.

Virtue is always too much of a piece and too ignorant of those shades of feeling and of temperament that enable us to squint when we are placed in a false position.

He hesitated till the last moment, but finally dropped them in the box, saying, "I shall win!"--the cry of a gambler, the cry of the great general, the compulsive cry that has ruined more men than it has ever saved.

If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance.

While seeking out the dead, I see nothing but the living.

In intimate family life, there comes a moment when children, willingly or no, become the judges of their parents.

Power is action; the electoral principle is discussion. No political action is possible when discussion is permanently established.