title: Cicero's Correspondence: A Literary Study
author:  G. O. Hutchinson 
description: <br />"...the greatest contribution of this book consists in Hutchinson's approach, which represents a sensitive and perspicuous application of a similar thesis to Cicero's letters."--<em>Classical World</em>
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  **_From the Pages of_  
  Père Goriot**
  
  
  ![001](images/bano_9781593082857_oeb_001_r1.jpg)
  
  
  Step by step the daylight decreases, and the cicerone’s droning voice grows
  hollower as the traveler descends into the Catacombs. The comparison holds
  good! Who shall say which is more ghastly, the sight of the bleached skulls or
  of dried-up human hearts?
  
  
  (page 11)
  
  
    
  
  This laughing-stock was the retired vermicelli-merchant, Father Goriot, upon
  whose face a painter, like the historian, would have concentrated all the
  light in his picture.
  
  
  (page 25)
  
  
    
  
  “If ever you explore a Parisian woman’s heart, you will find the money-lender
  first, and the lover afterwards.”
  
  
  (page 51)
  
  
    
  
  “Our heart is a treasury; if you pour out all its wealth at once, you are
  bankrupt. We show no more mercy to the affection that reveals its utmost
  extent than we do to another kind of prodigal who has not a penny left. Their
  father had given them all he had. For twenty years he had given his 