The greatest penalty of evil-doing is to grow into the likeness of bad men, and, growing like them, to fly from the conversation of the good, and be cut off from them, and cleave to and follow after the company of the bad.

The beginning is the chiefest part of any work.

Mankind censure injustice fearing that they may be the victims of it, and not because they shrink from committing it.

A house that has a library in it has a soul.

Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety.

Romantic Art: The Hearts Awakening - Bouguereau At the touch of love, everyone becomes a poet.

Where love reigns, there's no need for laws.