“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish”
“There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify - so that among these human creatures there is continually some birth of new heroism. The pity is that we must wonder at it, as we should at finding a pearl in rubbish”
“We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.”
“What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?”
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
“The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theology tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioned our characters in the wrong way.”
“It is well for the world that in most of us, by the age of thirty, the character has set like plaster, and will never soften again.”
“It is the true season of love when we know that we alone can love, that no one could ever have loved before us, and that no one will ever love in the same way after us. ”