Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

People generally will soon understand that writers should be judged, not according to rules and species, which are contrary to nature and art, but according to the immutable principles of the art of composition, and the special laws of their individual temperaments.

Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.

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.

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

A library implies an act of faith.

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