"Love is not altogether a Delirium," says he elsewhere; "yet has it many points in common therewith."

Dinners are defined as 'the ultimate act of communion;' men that can have communion in nothing else, can sympathetically eat together, can still rise into some glow of brotherhood over food and wine.

Every man has a coward and hero in his soul.

Of all God's creatures, Man alone is poor.

No violent extreme endures.

Let him who gropes painfully in darkness or uncertain light, and prays vehemently that the dawn may ripen into day, lay this precept well to heart: "Do the duty which lies nearest to thee," which thou know to be a duty! Thy second duty will already have become clearer.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.