To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibers. Take the cable thread by thread, take separately all the little determining motives, you break them one after another, and you say: that is all! Wind them and twist them together, they become an enormity.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.

She might have melted a heart of stone, but nothing can melt a heart of wood.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

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