2 Quotes by Théophile Thoré

Think, speak, and act. With age comes self-reproach: I might have done more. Therefore now do!

When a pebble is thrown into a lake, everything, down to the furthermost depths, moves with it. ... And if, afterwards, everything seems as it was, the level of the lake has none the less been raised by imperceptible, incalculable degree. The old order has been overthrown -- by a pebble.