Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.
Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.
Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
A man without a woman is like a pistol without a trigger; it is the woman who makes the man go off.
A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
Be like the bird who, pausing in her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing she hath wings.
Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.
Another story must begin!
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
An increase of tenderness always ended by boiling over and turning to indignation. He was at the point where we seek to adopt a course, and to accept what tears us apart.
If suffer we must, let’s suffer on the heights.
There is no vacuum in the human heart. Certain demolitions take place, and it is well that they do, but on condition that they are followed by reconstructions.
Adversity makes men, and prosperity makes monsters.
Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
One can no more keep the mind from returning to an idea than the sea from returning to a shore. For a sailor, this is called the tide; in the case of the guilty it is called remorse. God stirs up the soul as well as the ocean.
Animals run no risk of going to hell. They are already there.