Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?
The most dangerous of all flattery is the inferiority of those about us.
Time is the shower of Danae; each drop is golden.
Let our lives be pure as snowfields, where our steps leave a mark but no stain.
Prayer has a right to the word "ineffable." It is an hour of outpourings which words cannot express,--of that interior speech which we do not articulate, even when we employ it.
Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms.