Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
All merely graceful attributes are usually the most evanescent.
Do anything, save to lie down and die!
'What is the Unpardonable Sin' asked the lime-burner 'It is a sin that grew within my own breast', replied Ethan Brand 'The sin of an intellect that triumphed over the sense of brotherhood with man and reverence for God'.
Romance and poetry, ivy, lichens and wallflowers need ruin to make them grow.
A man--poet, prophet, or whatever be may be--readily persuades himself of his right to all the worship that is voluntarily tendered.