If he had had all Peru in his pocket, he would certainly have given it to this dancer; but Gringoire had not Peru in his pocket; and besides, America was not yet discovered. (p. 66)

To live a life which is a perpetual falsehood is to suffer unknown tortures.

Everything bows to success, even grammar.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

There is no more sovereign eloquence than the truth in indignation.