Love enters the heart unawares: takes precedence of all the emotions--or, at least, will be second to none--and even reflection becomes its accomplice. While it lives, it renders blind; and when it has struck its roots deep only itself can shake them. It reminds one of hospitality as practiced among the ancients. The stranger was received upon the threshold of the half-open door, and introduced into the sanctuary reserved for the Penates. Not until every attention had been lavished upon him did the host ask his name; and the question was sometimes deferred till the very moment of departure.
We are amused through the intellect, but it is the heart that saves us from ennui.
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
Indulgence is lovely in the sinless; toleration, adorable in the pious and believing heart.
The heart has always the pardoning power.
