Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, ...and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I see upon their noble brows the seal of the Lord, for they were born kings of the earth far more truly than those who possess it ...only from having bought it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is sad, no doubt, to exhaust one's strength and one's days in cleaving the bosom of this jealous earth, which compels us to wri...ng from it the treasures of its fertility, when a bit of the blackest and coarsest bread is, at the end of the day's work, the sole recompense and the sole profit attaching to so arduous a toil.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I belie...ved everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I regard as a mortal sin not only the lying of the senses in matters of love, but also the illusion which the senses seek to creat...e where love is only partial. I say, I believe, that one must love with all of one's being, or else live, come what may, a life of complete chastity.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Observing him in these moods, I often dwelt meditatively upon the old philosophy of the Bi-Part Soul, and amused myself with the f...ancy of a double Dupin--the creative and the resolvent.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;... We may live without friends; we may live without books; But civilized man cannot live without cooks.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
No sooner had I glanced at this letter, than I concluded it to be that of which I was in search. To be sure, it was, to all appear...ance, radically different from the one of which the Prefect had read us so minute a description.... But, then, the radicalness of these differences ... these things ... were strongly corroborative of suspicion.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »