Reading brings us unknown friends

What patient can trust the knowledge of a physician without reputation or furniture, in a period when publicity is all-powerful and when the government gilds the lamp posts on the Place de la Concorde in order to dazzle the poor?

Many men are deeply moved by the mere semblance of suffering in a woman; they take the look of pain for a sign of constancy or of love.

Are not our noblest feelings as it were the poems of our will.

Narrow minds can develop as well through persecution as through benevolence; they can assure themselves of their power by tyrannizing cruelly or beneficially over others.

I believe in the incomprehensibility of God.

You're a fine fastidious young man, as proud as a lion, as gentle as a girl. You'd make a good catch for the devil.