Virtue will catch as well as vice by contact. [ Burke ]

Worship your heroes from afar; contact withers them. [ Mme. Necker ]

Contact with the world either breaks or hardens the heart. [ Chamfort ]

Inner sunshine warms not only the heart of the owner, but all who come in contact with it. [ J. T. Fields ]

When a pagan race comes in contact with a Christian race, they are converted, absorbed, or exterminated. [ Joseph Bartlett ]

There is a healthful hardiness about real dignity that never dreads contact and communion with others, however humble. [ Washington Irving ]

We all have in our hearts a secret place where we keep, free from the contact of the world, our sweetest remembrances. [ De Finod ]

Obscurity and Innocence, twin sisters, escape temptations which would pierce their gossamer armor, in contact with the world. [ Chamfort ]

Amiable people, while they are more liable to imposition in casual contact with the world, yet radiate so much of mental sunshine that they are reflected in all appreciative hearts. [ Madame Deluzy ]

There are brains so large that they unconsciously swamp all individualities which come in contact or too near, and brains so small that they cannot take in the conception of any other individuality as a whole, only in part or parts. [ Mrs. Jameson ]

The enthusiast has been compared to a man walking in a fog; everything immediately around him, or in contact with him, appears sufficiently clear and luminous; but beyond the little circle of which he himself is the centre, all is mist and error and confusion. [ Colton ]

A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbors sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. [ Martial ]