Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

I am suffocated and lost when I have not the bright feeling of progression.

How anyone can remain a Catholic - I mean who has ever been aroused to think, and is not biased by the partialities of childish years - after seeing Catholicism here in Italy I cannot conceive.

Nature provides exceptions to every rule.

Man tells his aspiration in his God; but in his demon he shows his depth of experience.

To one who has enjoyed the full life of any scene, of any hour, what thoughts can be recorded about it seem like the commas and semicolons in the paragraph-mere stops.

This is the method of genius, to ripen fruit for the crowd by those rays of whose heat they complain.