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.

Curiosity is one of the forms of feminine bravery.

M. Mabeuf’s political opinion was a passionate fondness for plants, and a still greater one for books. He had, like everybody else, his termination in ist, without which nobody could have lived in those times, but he was neither a royalist, nor a Bonapartist, nor a chartist, nor an Orleanist, nor an anarchist; he was an old-bookist.

I'm not in the world to guard my own life, but to guard souls

Men become accustomed to poison by degrees.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

Those who always pray are necessary to those who never pray.