Editing Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (section)

==Quotations==
* "Next to the wound, what women make best is the bandage."<ref>Auden, W.H.; Kronenberger, Lewis (1966). ''The Viking Book of Aphorisms''. New York: Viking Press.</ref>
* "The mortal envelope of the Middle Age has disappeared, but the essential remains. Because the temporal disguise has fallen, the dupes of history and of its dates say that the Middle Age is dead. Does one die for changing his shirt?"<ref>Pène du Bois, Henri (1897). [https://archive.org/stream/wittywisewickedm00peneiala#page/n3/mode/2up ''Witty, Wise and Wicked Maxims.''] New York: Brentano's, p. 53.</ref>
* "In France everybody is an aristocrat, for everybody aims to be distinguished from everybody. The red cap of the Jacobins is the red heel of the aristocrats at the other extremity, but it is the same distinctive sign. Only, as they hated each other, Jacobinism placed on its head what aristocracy placed under its foot."<ref>Pène du Bois (1897), p. 53.</ref> 
* "In the matter of literary form it is the thing poured in the vase which makes the beauty of the vase, otherwise there is nothing more than a vessel."<ref>Pène du Bois (1897), p. 54.</ref> 
* "Books must be set against books, as poisons against poisons."<ref>Pène du Bois (1897), p. 55.</ref>
* "When superior men are mistaken they are superior in that as in all else. They see more falsely than small or mediocre minds."<ref>Pène du Bois (1897), p. 55.</ref> 
* "The Orient and Greece recall to my mind the saying, so coloured and melancholic, of Richter: 'Blue is the colour of mourning in the Orient. That is why the sky of Greece is so beautiful'."<ref>Pène du Bois (1897), p. 60.</ref>  
* "Men give their measure by their admiration, and it is by their judgements that one may judge them."<ref>Pène du Bois (1897), p. 61.</ref>
* "The most beautiful destiny: to have genius and be obscure."<ref>Pène du Bois (1897), p. 62.</ref>