A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables
Houses are like the human beings that inhabit them.
The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
To meditate is to labour; to think is to act.
Art moves. Hence its civilizing power.
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.