To love is the half of to believe.

He had slipped, climbed, rolled, searched, walked, persevered, that is all. Such is the secret of all triumphs.

A library implies an act of faith.

Great grief is a divine and terrible radiance which transfigures the wretched.

Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

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.

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.