Sincerity may be humble but she cannot be servile.
Category Archive: 1788
Compassion is the basis of morality.
In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one’s rights and double one’s duties.
They never fail who die in a great cause.
There are four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same. Only love.
Who loves, raves.
Women hate everything which strips off the tinsel of sentiment, and they are right, or it would rob them of their weapons.
‘Tis pleasant, sure, to see one’s name in print. A book’s a book, although there’s nothing in ‘t.
Ye stars! which are the poetry of heaven!
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse.