The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are... - Victor Hugo

"A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)"

"Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh."

"A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon."

"A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil."

"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness."