Gutenberg's invention of printing is the greatest event-the mother of revolution

In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

I put a Phrygian cap on the old dictionary.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.