I was dying when you came.

The earlier works of a man of genius are always preferred to the newer ones, in order to prove that he is going down instead of up.

When a woman is talking to you, listen to what she says with her eyes.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.

To rescue from oblivion even a fragment of a language which men have used and which is in danger of being lost -that is to say, one of the elements, whether good or bad, which have shaped and complicated civilization -is to extend the scope of social observation and to serve civilization.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.