If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
Death belongs only to God. What right have men to lay hands on a thing so unknown?
He who every morning plans the transactions of that day and follows that plan carries a thread that will guide him through the labyrinth of the most busy life.
The child watched its disappearance--he was astounded but dreamy. His stupefaction was complicated by a sense of the dark reality of existence. It seemed as if there were experience in this dawning be...
To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future a reflex from the future on the past.
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
While through the working of laws and customs there continues to exist a condition of social condemnation which artificially creates a human hell within civilization, and complicates with human fatali...
The terrible shock of his sentence had in some way broken that wall which separates us from the mystery of things beyond and which we call life.
Que faut-il pour faire évanouir ces larves? de la lumière. De la lumière à flots. Pas une chauve-souris ne résiste à l'aube. Éclairez la société en dessous.
Nothing is so charming as the ruddy tints that happiness can shed around a garret room.
My greatness does not extend to this shelf.
Men and deeds were brought to judgment there. They jeered at the age, which released them from the necessity of understanding it.
Everyone has noticed the taste which cats have for pausing and lounging between the two leaves of a half-shut door. Who is there who has not said to a cat, Do come in! There are men who, when an incid...
Counterfeits of the past, under new names, may easily be mistaken for the future. The past, that ghostly traveler, is liable to forge his papers. We must be wary of the trap. The past has a face which...
Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.
Formerly these harsh cells in which the discipline of the prison leaves the condemned to himself were composed of four stone walls, a ceiling of stone, a pavement of tiles, a camp bed, a grated air-ho...
Tall and thin, Mademoiselle Baptistine was a pale and gentle person. She was the incarnation of the word 'respectable,' whereas to be 'venerable,' a woman should lso be a mother.
He, who every morning plans the transactions of the day, and follows that plan, carries a thread that will guide him through a labyrinth of the most busy life.
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.