If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.

I love victory, but I love not triumph.

The ideal friendship is to feel as one while remaining two.

It would seem that by our sorrows only are we called to a knowledge of the Infinite. Are we happy? The limits of life constrain us on all sides.

A good, finished scandal, fully armed and equipped, such as circulates in the world, is rarely the production of a single individual, or even of a single coterie. It sees the light in one; is rocked and nurtured in another; is petted, developed, and attains its growth in a third; and receives its finishing touches only after passing through a multitude of hands. It is a child that can count a host of fathers--all ready to disown it.

The law of common sense.

The beings who appear cold, but are only timid, adore where they dare to love.