To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.

The poetic element lying hidden in most women is the source of their magnetic attraction.

Ma vie est une énigme dont ton nom est le mot. (My life is an enigma, of which your name is the word.)

There is but one way of refusing To-morrow, that is to die.

We shall look on crime as a disease, and its physicians shall displace the judges, its hospitals displace the Galleys. Liberty and health shall be alike. We shall pour balm and oil where we formerly applied iron and fire; evil will be treated in charity, instead of in anger. This change will be simple and sublime.

To love another person is to see the face of God.