No society is complete without some victim, a creature to pity, to jeer at, to scorn or to protect.

As a rule, only the poor are generous. Rich people can always find excellent reasons for not handing over twenty thousand francs to a relative.

Six weeks with a fever is an eternity.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

All human beings go through a previous life... Who knows how many fleshly forms the heir of heaven occupies before he can be brought to understand the value of that silence and solitude of spiritual worlds?

Where some one else's welfare is concerned, a young girl becomes as ingenious as a thief. Guileless where she herself is in question, and full of foresight for me,-she is like a heavenly angel forgiving the strange incomprehensible sins of earth.

Love is the only way on which even the dim-witted reaches certain heights.