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Admiration and familiarity strangers. - [Admiration] Discouragement seizes us only when we can no longer count on chance. - [Chance] Fame and admiration weigh not a feather in the scale against friendship and love, for the heart languishes all the same. - [Fame] Learned women are ridiculed because they put to shame unlearned men. - [Education] Love without reverence and enthusiasm is only friendship. - [Devotion] Lying, like license, has its degrees. - [Lying] O heart! love is thy bane and thy antidote. - [Heart] The life of great geniuses is nothing but a sublime storm. - [Genius] The smoke of glory is not worth the smoke of a pipe. - [Glory] There are no greater prudes than those women who have some secret to hide. - [Guilt] There is but on virtue--the eternal sacrifice of self. - [Unselfishness] There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved. - in a letter to Lina Calamatta [Love] To forgive a fault in another is more sublime than to be faultless one's self. - [Forgiveness] Vanity is the quicksand of reason. - [Vanity] Weakness is oftentimes so palpable as to be equivalent to wickedness. - [Weakness] Weeds are omnipresent; errors are to be found in the heart of the most lovable. - [Error] The beauty that addresses itself to the eyes is only the spell of the moment; the eye of the body is not always of the soul. - Handsome Lawrence (ch. I) [Beauty] A man is not a wall, whose stones are crushed upon the road; or a pipe, whose fragments are thrown away at a street corner. The fragments of an intellect are always good. - Handsome Lawrence (ch. II) [Intellect] Be prudent, and if you hear, . . . some insult or some threat, . . . have the appearance of not hearing it. - Handsome Lawrence (ch. II) [Prudence] A sweet voice, a little indistinct and muffled, which caresses and does not thrill; an utterance which glides on without emphasis, and lays stress on what is deeply felt. - Handsome Lawrence (ch. III) [Voice] Happiness lies in the consciousness we have of it, and by no means in the way the future keeps its promises. - Handsome Lawrence (ch. III) [Happiness]
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