“I do not believe that affection can exist with truth, without the ideal, and without blending with itself all that is best and most earnest in our nature.”
No.21. Woodstock — ALICE LEE.
No.22. Marmion — CONSTANCE. See under The Monthly Magazine
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“Frivolity without gaiety and earnestness without seriousness—a most unattractive combination.”
It’s This Bad http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_2_oh_to_be.html(Spring 2006).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

"Unitarian Christianity", an address to The First Independent Church of Baltimore (5 May 1819)
Context: We do, then, with all earnestness, though without reproaching our brethren, protest against the irrational and unscriptural doctrine of the Trinity. "To us," as to the Apostle and the primitive Christians, "there is one God, even the Father." With Jesus, we worship the Father, as the only living and true God. We are astonished, that any man can read the New Testament, and avoid the conviction, that the Father alone is God.
“A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.”
The Last Page, p. 7.
A History of Reading (1996)

Si, comme le croient plusieurs Canadiens, le Canada ne peut exister sans le Québec, alors il ne mérite tout simplement pas d'exister.
La Colère. Écrits polémiques. Lanctôt Éditeur, 1996 p.257, tome 3
Source: The Animal Welfare Movement and the Foundations of Ethics, p. 93

“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?”
As quoted in The Reader’s Digest (June 1958)

Napoleon : In His Own Words (1916)