Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.

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

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.

I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain.

God secludes Himself; but the thinker listens at the door.

My greatness does not extend to this shelf.