I swear that, not being able to be yours, I will belong to no one.

Every man is a creature of the age in which he lives and few are able to raise themselves above the ideas of the time.

The best is the enemy of the good.

All the arts are brothers; each one is a light to the others.

If God created us in his own image, we have more than reciprocated.

Every sensible man, every honest man, must hold the Christian sect in horror. But what shall we substitute in its place? you say. What? A ferocious animal has sucked the blood of my relatives. I tell you to rid yourselves of this beast, and you ask me what you shall put in its place ?

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