Why was I not made of stone like thee?
--Quasimodo[to a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire].

“Often when we think we are knotting one thread, we are tying quite another.”

“He loved to saunter through fields of wild oats and corn-flowers, and busied hi…”

“His mind could do without faith, but his heart could not do without friendship.”

“For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinar…”