It is our duty to select the best and most dependable theory that human intelligence can supply, and use it as a raft to ride the seas of life.

Every man is a poet when he is in love.

Hardly any human being is capable of pursuing two professions or two arts rightly.

And when one of them meets the other half, the actual half of himself, whether he be a lover of youth or a lover of another sort, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight, as I may say, even for a moment.

He who love touches walks not in darkness.

To prefer evil to good is not in human nature; and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.

It is a common saying, and in everybody's mouth, that life is but a sojourn.