The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

To contemplate is to look at shadows.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

God made the water but men made the wine.

And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

Genuflection before the idol or the dollar destroys the muscles which walk and the will that moves.