💬 Quotes

"Victor Hugo has peopled these ancient aisles with creations so vivid that we almost forget the actual history of the stones themselves."

"To understand the medieval mind, one must study not merely its chronicles, but the towering spires and grotesque gargoyles that sprang from its imagination."

"It is a strange thing, this human life, made up as it is of inevitable woe and fleeting joy, yet wherein hope springs ever fresh, like water in a desert place."

"Vengeance is a hard master to serve, and those who take his wages find bitterness at the last, though the cup may seem sweet to the lips at first tasting."

"Fate leads us by strange roads, and often those we count our bitterest enemies are but the instruments forged to shape us to our true destiny."

"A brave man dies once, but a coward dies a thousand deaths in the quiet chambers of his own craven heart."

"There is a power greater than the gods of Anahuac or the God of Christendom, a power that binds the hearts of men together across the gulf of differing creeds and alien blood."

"Memory is the ghost that haunts the house of life, and of all memories, those of our lost youth and ancient wrongs are the most unfading."