To pay compliments to the one we love is the first method of caressing, a demi-audacity venturing. A compliment is something like a kiss through a veil.

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

Happiness lies for those who cry, those who hurt, those who have searched, and those who have tried for only they can appreciate the importance of people who have touched their lives.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.