Entry 62

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

In ancient days the most celebrated precept was, "Know thyself"; in modern times it has been supplanted by the more fashionable maxim, "Know thy neighbor, and everything about him."
Johnson

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
Cicero

Instinct is the nose of the mind.
Mme. DE Girardin


See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea...
Shelley