Proverty and wealth are comparative sins.

In short, I am doing what I can, I suffer with the same universal suffering, and I try to assuage it, I possess only the puny forces of a man, and I cry to all: “Help me!

I repeat, whether we be Italians or Frenchmen, misery concerns us all.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

The repose of darkness is deeper on the water than on the land.

Cheerfulness is like money well expended in charity; the more we dispense of it, the greater our possession.

By putting forward the hands of the clock you shall not advance the hour.