But oh! the Latin!-Madame, you can really have no idea of what a mess it is. The Romans would never have found time to conquer the world if they had been obliged first to learn Latin. Lucky dogs! they already knew in their cradles the nouns ending in im. I on the contrary had to learn it by heart, in the sweat of my brow.

Everywhere that a great soul gives utterance to its thoughts, there also is a Golgotha.

There is only one writer in whom I find something that reminds me of the directness of style which is found in the Bible. It is Shakespeare.

Wherever books are burned, human beings are destined to be burned too.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

The men of action are, after all, only the unconscious instruments of the men of thought.

The people have no ear, either for rhythm or music, and their unnatural passion for pianoforte playing and singing is thus all the more repulsive. There is nothing on earth more terrible than English music, except English painting.