Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.
To cement a new friendship especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person and cut across the accidents of place and time.
Friendship can only exist between persons with similar interests and points of view. Man and woman by the conventions of society are born with different interests and different points of view.
Friendship is a strong and habitual inclination in two persons to promote the good and happiness of one another.
In short is not liberty the freedom of every person to make full use of his faculties so long as he does not harm other persons while doing so?
Persons famous in the arts partake of the immortality of princes and are upon a footing with them.
The love of the famous like all strong passions is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically and it is independent of persons.
The traditional spokespersons for the Evangelicals such as Chuck Colson and James Dobson have become alarmed about this drift away from the 'Family Values' issues that they believe should be the overwhelming concerns of Evangelicals. They have expressed their displeasure in letters of protest circulated through the religious media.
It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all. And often enough our faith beforehand in an uncertified result is the only thing that makes the result come true.
The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.