Every man alone is sincere. At the entrance of a second person, hypocrisy begins

We say love is blind, and the figure of Cupid is drawn with a bandage around his eyes. Blind - yes, because he does not see what he does not like; but the sharpest-sighted hunter in the universe is Love for finding what he seeks, and only that.

His heart was as great as the world, but there was no room in it to hold the memory of a wrong.

As the Sandwich Islander believes that the strength and valor of the enemy he kills passes into himself, so we gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

Pictures must not be too picturesque.

When we are exalted by ideas, we do not owe this to Plato, but to the idea, to which also Plato was debtor.

If we must accept fate we are not less compelled to affirm liberty, the significance of the individual, the grandeur of duty, the power of character.