“Men like me are impossible until the day when they become necessary.” — Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

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

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.