History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.

The difference is slight, to the influence of an author, whether he is read by five hundred readers, or by five hundred thousand; if he can select the five hundred, he reaches the five hundred thousand.

In correct theology, the Virgin ought not to be represented in bed, for she could not suffer like ordinary women, but her palace at Chartres is not much troubled by theology, and to her, as empress-mother, the pain of child-birth was a pleasure which she wanted her people to share.

History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough.

History is only a value of relation.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.