His pictures were as extravagant as his body was dry and his conversation taciturn... they ravished the eye with their brilliancy, but they made you shiver.Narrator
What enterprise that an enlightened community may attempt is more noble and more profitable, than the reclamation of the criminal through repentance into virtue?Narrator
A living artist is worth six dead ones, At present rates that isFritz Traps, artist and character in the book
They plunged into the Frenchman's history and there they transacted miraclesNarrator
Aspire to goodness and purity; shun the trend of modern thought toward skepticism in matters of religion, accept the Bible as the proven word of God and be prepared to find in afterlife the paradise and the reward promised by him in his Holy Book.Narrator
It was art, it was high art.Narrator
I had an idea you had an uncomfortable look in your eyes, but I thought maybe you had been dissipating.Edouard François Petitjean, artist and character in the book
He would tolerate no disobedience, suffer no dispute.Narrator
He was as dead as a person could be—dead beyond the power of the most indomitable imagination to warm up into life—and there wasn't a sign of any tombstone.Narrator
One year rolled by—an affluent year for the defiant living claimant of that name, an expensive one for the perplexed and embarrassed legal and official world.Narrator