Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.

Poetry is truth in its Sunday clothes.

The egoist does not tolerate egoism.

God often visits us, but most of the time we are not at home.

To love is to choose.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

That which deceives us and does us harm, also undeceives us and does us good.