"A few feet under the ground reigns..." - Quote by Victor Hugo

“Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions”

“My childhood began, as everybody's childhood begins, with prejudices. Man finds prejudices beside his cradle, puts them from him a little in the course of his career, and often, alas! takes to them again in his old age.”

“Everything Changes. The only thing that remains immovable across the centuries and fixes the character of a people is cooking.”

“So fair, so cold; like a morning of pale spring still clinging to winter's chill.”

“You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.”

“The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast; but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.”

“The brawling of a sparrow in the eaves The brilliant moon and all the milky sky And all that famous harmony of leaves Had blotted out man's image and his cry.”

“It is ill-manners to silence a fool and cruelty to let him go on”

“Silent strength is the quality of all good men and most mummies.”