Since there must be chimeras, why is not perfection the chimera of all men?

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

Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.

God Himself allows certain faults; and often we say, "I have deserved to err; I have deserved to be ignorant.

Truth only is prolific. Error, sterile in itself, produces only by means of the portion of truth which it contains. It may have offspring, but the life which it gives, like that of the hybrid races, cannot be transmitted.

Let us resist the opinion of the world fearlessly, provided only that our self-respect grows in proportion to our indifference.

The law of common sense.