As for that cosmopolitanism for which you censure him, we do not agree there; it is just that which interests me in him.

Thirdly,...

I should not consider that I had lost the six months spent in Rome, if I had met only him.

Do not look at me as if I were one of the patrons of the circus, Uncle Beuve, or poor Monsieur Renan himself," he continued, tapping the Marquis's shoulder.
"I swear to you that I am very serious.

Nothing interests me more than these exceptions to the general rule--than those who have passed through two, three, four phases of existence.