There are those who would misteach us that to stick in a rut is consistency - and a virtue, and that to climb out of the rut is inconsistency - and a vice.
Work is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Civilization is a limitless multiplication of unnecessary necessities.
Who is this Renaissance? Where did he come from? Who gave him permission to cram the Republic with his execrable daubs?
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
Hardly a man in the world has an opinion upon morals, political, or religion which he got otherwise than through his associations and sympathies.