Poet, novelist, essayist, dramatist, shall be ranked honourable in my Republic.

I am neither, but a man of law, a student of the sciences, a politician, on the road to government and statecraft: and yet I say I have learnt as much from light literature as from heavy-as much, that is, from the pictures of our human blood in motion as from the clever assortment of our forefatherly heaps of bones.

Shun those who cry out against fiction and have no taste for elegant writing.

For to have no sympathy with the playful mind is not to have a mind: it is a test.

But name the books.' She named one or two.
'And when does Dr.Alvan date the first year of his Republic ?' 'Clotilde!' he turned on her.
'My good sir ?' 'These worthy good people who are with you: tell me-to-morrow we leave them!' 'Leave them ?' 'You with me.