If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, th…

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

A Platonic friendship is perhaps only possible when one or other of the Platonists is in love with a third person.

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

It is as the father of the Encyclopedia that Denis Diderot merits eternal recognition. Guilty as he was in almost every relation of life towards the …

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

There is always more goodness in the world than there appears to be, because goodness is of its very nature modest and retiring.

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

All men now allow that if any human power could have stemmed the avalanche of the French Revolution, it would have been the reforms of Turgot.

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

He who has lost only those of whose faith and truth he is sure, has not yet reached the depth of human desolation.

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit.

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall

It is by character and not by intellect the world is won.

- Evelyn Beatrice Hall