The merciful precepts of Christ will at last suffuse the Code and it will glow with their radiance. Crime will be considered an illness with its own doctors to replace your judges and its hospitals to replace your prisons. Liberty shall be equated with health. Ointments and oil shall be applied to limbs that were once shackled and branded. Infirmities that once were scourged with anger shall now be bathed with love. The cross in place of the gallows: sublime and yet so simple.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.

These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.