We do what we must, and call it by the best names.

Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.

A little fact is worth a whole limbo of dreams.

Youth is everywhere in place.

The life of man is a self-evolving circle, which, from a ring imperceptibly small, rushes on all sides outwards to new and largercircles, and that without end.

The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him. Has he talents? has heenterprise? has he knowledge? It boots not. Infinitely alluring and attractive was he to you yesterday, a great hope, a sea to swim in; now, you have found his shores, found it a pond, and you care not if you never see it again.

Pure by impure is not seen.