Nobody knows like a woman how to say things at the same time sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is all of Heaven.

Most commonly revolt is born of material circumstances; but insurrection is always a moral phenomenon. Revolt is Masaniello, who led the Neapolitan insurgents in 1647; but insurrection is Spartacus. Insurrection is a thing of the spirit, revolt is a thing of the stomach.

The women laughed and wept; the crowd stamped their feet enthusiastically, for at that moment Quasimodo was really beautiful. He was handsome — this orphan, this foundling, this outcast.

Of all the things that God has made, the human heart is the one which sheds the most light, alas! and the most darkness.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.

It is those books which a man possesses but does not read which constitute the most suspicious evidence against him.

Popularity - a piece of faded tinsel, that is out of date.