It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

when a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple; take it and copy it. Give references? Why should you? Either your readers know where you have taken the passage and the precaution is needless, or they do not know and you humiliate them.

One can and should say everything— if one knows how to say it.

With encouragement, anything is possible.

Nature, in her indifference, makes no distinction between good and evil.

For every monarchy overthrown the sky becomes less brilliant, because it loses a star. A republic is ugliness set free.

Nine-tenths of education is encouragement.

The Kingdom of Heaven is a military autocracy and there is no public opinion in it.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one's soul remains unawakened