She blushed and so did he. She greeted him in a faltering voice, and he spoke to her without knowing what he was saying.

Everything can be borne except contempt.

The more estimable the offender, the greater the torment.

This agglomeration which was called and which still calls itself the Holy Roman Empire was neither holy, nor Roman, nor an empire.

You despise books; you whose lives are absorbed in the vanities of ambition, the pursuit of pleasure or indolence; but remember that all the known world, excepting only savage nations, is governed by books.

In every author let us distinguish the man from his works.

A small number of choice books are sufficient.