I have been told, that in some public discourses of mine my reverence for the intellect has made me unjustly cold to the personal ...relations. But now I almost shrink at the remembrance of such disparaging words. For persons are love's world, and the coldest philosopher cannot recount the debt of the young soul wandering here in nature to the power of love, without being tempted to unsay, as treasonable to nature, aught derogatory to the social instincts.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
They soon became like brothers from community of wrongs; They wrote each other little odes and sang each other songs;... They told each other anecdotes disparaging their wives; On several occasions, too, they saved each other's lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »