The duty of literature is to note what counts, and to light up what is suited to the light. If it ceases to choose and to love, it becomes like a woman who gives herself without preference.

I do not know any reading more easy, more fascinating, more delightful than a catalogue.

The average man does not know what to do with this life, yet wants another one which will last forever.

Nine tenths of education is encouragement.

Justice is the means by which established injustices are sanctioned

The law ... allows rich as well as poor to sleep under bridges.

Existence would be intolerable if we were never to dream.