Those who pray always are necessary to those who never pray. In our view, the whole question is in the amount of thought that is mingled with prayer.

Not seeing people allows you to think of them as perfect in all kinds of ways.

The holy law of Jesus Christ governs our civilisation, but it does not yet permeate it.

Joie est mon caractere, C'est la faute a Voltaire; Misere est mon trousseau C'est la faute a Rousseau. [Joy is my character, 'Tis the fault of Voltaire; Misery is my trousseau 'Tis the fault of Rousseau.] - Gavroche

Close by the Rights of Man, at the least set beside them, are the Rights of the Spirit.

One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.

Separated lovers cheat absence by a thousand fancies which have their own reality. They are prevented from seeing one another and they cannot write; nevertheless they find countless mysterious ways of corresponding, by sending each other the song of birds, the scent of flowers, the laughter of children.