"Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come." — Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.

In the French language, there is a great gulf between prose and poetry; in English, there is hardly any difference. It is a splendid privilege of the great literary languages Greek, Latin, and French that they possess a prose. English has not this privilege. There is no prose in English.