Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.

Was it possible that Napoleon should win the battle of Waterloo? We answer, No! Why? Because of Wellington? Because of Blucher? No! Because of God! For Bonaparte to conquer at Waterloo was not the law of the nineteenth century. It was time that this vast man should fall. He had been impeached before the Infinite! He had vexed God! Waterloo was not a battle. It was the change of front of the Universe!

Rhyme, that enslaved queen, that supreme charm of our poetry, that creator of our meter.

The malicious have a dark happiness.

It was SHE. Whoever has loved knows all the radiant meaning contained in the three letters of this word ‘she.

Every man is a book in which God himself writes.