To love is the half of to believe.

What is fright by night is curiosity by day.

Homer is one of the men of genius who solve that fine problem of art - the finest of all, perhaps - truly to depict humanity by the enlargement of man: that is, to generate the real in the ideal.

Progress is the stride of God.

A one-eyed man is much more incomplete than a blind man, for he knows what it is that's lacking.

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the flash. What will spring up in a moment? Nobody knows.

...there is a point when the unfortunate and the infamous are associated and confused in a word, a mortal word, les miserables