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.

Thought precedes action as lighting does thunder.

The sea appears all golden. Beneath the sun-lit sky.

God will forgive me the foolish remarks I have made about Him just as I will forgive my opponents the foolish things they have written about me, even though they are spiritually as inferior to me as I to thee, O God!

Oh, they loved dearly: their souls kissed, they kissed with their eyes, they were both but one single kiss.

A brainiac notices everything, an ignoramus comments about everything.

Great genius takes shape by contact with another great genius, but less by assimilation than by friction.