“If there is something to pardon in everything, there is also something to condemn”
“For how can we condemn something that is ephemeral, in transit? In the sunset of dissolution, everything is illuminated by the aura of nostalgia, even the guillotine.”
“It is surely better to pardon too much, than to condemn too much.”
“Imagination was condemned to make something of things.”
“I should say something, but what? Pardon me, Father, but it’s our brother she wants to marry?”
“It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.”