To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

When love has fused and mingled two beings in a sacred and angelic unity, the secret of life has been discovered so far as they are concerned; they are no longer anything more than the two boundaries of the same destiny; they are no longer anything but the two wings of the same spirit. Love, soar.

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing; my conscience.