My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

I love all men who think, even those who think otherwise than myself.

Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.

Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.

The clouds, - the only birds that never sleep.

The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Upon the first goblet he read this inscription, monkey wine; upon the second, lion wine; upon the third, sheep wine; upon the fourth, swine wine. These four inscriptions expressed the four descending degrees of drunkenness: the first, that which enlivens; the second, that which irritates; the third, that which stupefies; finally the last, that which brutalizes.