Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.

England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Genius is rare because the means of becoming one have not been available

Do you know what friendship is?' he asked. 'Yes,' replied the gypsy; 'it is to be brother and sister; two souls which touch without mingling, two fingers on one hand.' 'And love?' pursued Gringoire. 'Oh! love!' said she, and her voice trembled, and her eye beamed. 'That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

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