What is fright by night is curiosity by day.
Those who do not weep, do not see.
A smile is the same as sunshine; it banishes winter from the human countenance.
God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.
This conflict between right and fact has endured since the origins of society. To bring the duel to an end, to consolidate the pure ideal with the human reality, to make the right peacefully interpenetrate the fact, and the fact the right, this is the work of the wise.
It is grievous for a man to leave behind him a shadow in his own shape.