The owl goes not into the nest of the lark.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

We need those who pray constantly to compensate for those who do not pray at all.

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

To love beauty is to see light.