What a contemplation for the mind, and what endless food for thought, is the reverberation of God upon the human wall!
We are not obliged to sound the Bishop of D—— on the score of orthodoxy. In the presence of such a soul we feel ourselves in no mood but respect. The conscience of the just man should be accepted on h...
To love or to have loved, that is enough. Ask nothing further. There is no other pearl to be found in the dark folds of life. To love is a consummation.
Thus he shut himself up, he lived there, he was absolutely satisfied with it, leaving on one side the prodigious questions which attract and terrify, the fathomless perspectives of abstraction, the pr...
This is because he has in his heart a pearl, innocence; and pearls are not to be dissolved in mud. So long as man is in his childhood, God wills that he shall be innocent.
There is a way of avoiding a person which resembles a search.
There are things stronger than the strongest man...
There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.
There are fathers who do not love their children; there exists no grandfather who does not adore his grandson. At
The whole of progress tends in the direction of solution. Some day we shall be amazed. As the human race mounts upward, the deep layers emerge naturally from the zone of distress. The obliteration of...
The sunshine was delightful, the foliage gently astir, more from the activity of birds than from the breeze. One gallant little bird, doubtless lovelorn, was singing his heart out at the top of a tall...
The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber.
The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars.
The poor man shuddered inside, flooded with an angelic bliss; he told himself in a burst of joy that this would last all his life; he
The peculiar property of truth is never to commit excesses. What need has it of exaggeration? There
The only social peril is darkness.
The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.
The eye of a man should be still more reverent before the rising of a young maiden than before the rising of a star. The possibility of touch should increase respect. The down of the peach, the dust o...
The earth is a great piece of stupidity.
The cruel of heart have their own black happiness.