Revolutions are not born of chance but of necessity.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.

Nothing can be sadder or more profound than to see a thousand things for the first and last time.

Strange to say, the luminous world is the invisible world; the luminous world is that which we do not see. Our eyes of flesh see only night.

The soul helps the body, and at certain moments raises it. It is the only bird that sustains its cage.

There shall be no slavery of the mind.