Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

Human intelligence discovered a way of perpetuating itself, one not only more durable and more resistant than architecture, but also simpler and easier. Architecture was dethroned. The stone letters of Orpheus gave way to the lead letters of Gutenburg. The book will kill the edifice.

A wretched woman is more unfortunate than a wretched man.

Love is like a tree, it grows of its own accord, it puts down deep roots into our whole being.

There is a material advancement; we desire it. There is, also, a moral grandeur; we hold fast to it.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

Reality in strong doses frightens.