The telescope makes the world smaller; it is only the microscope that makes it larger.
Being 'contented' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.
I represent the jolly mass of mankind. I am the happy and reckless Christian.
The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.