Any one who is much talked of, must be much maligned. This seems to be a harsh conclusion; but when you consider how much more given men are to depre… - Arthur Helps

Soothe the present as much as we may; look forward as hopefully as we can to the future, still the dreadful past must overshadow us.

Love, like the opening of the heavens to the Saints, shows for a moment, even to the dullest man, the possibilities of the human race. He has faith, hope, and charity for another being, perhaps but a creation of his imagination: still it is a great advance for a man to be profoundly loving even in his imagination.

The knowledge of others which experience gives us, is of slight value when compared with that which we obtain from having proved the inconstancy of our own desires.