We must remain as close to the flowers, the grass, and the butterflies as the child is who is not yet so much taller than they are.

Contentment preserves one from catching cold. Has a woman who knew that she was well dressed ever caught a cold? No, not even when she had scarcely a rag on her back.

Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

Where one despises, one cannot wage war.

A thought, even a possibility, can shatter and transform us.

Sins are indispensable to every society organized on an ecclesiastical basis; they are the only reliable weapons of power; the priest lives upon sins; it is necessary to him that there be sinning.

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.