Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only.

She worked in order to live, and presently fell in love, also in order to live, for the heart, too, has its hunger.

Spira, spera. (breathe, hope)

One of the hardest labours of the just man is to expunge from his soul a malevolence which it is difficult to efface.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.