As we have explained, in first love the soul is taken long before the body; later the body is taken long before the soul; sometimes the soul is not taken at all.

Winter changes into stone the water of heaven and the heart of man.

To learn to read is to light a fire.

What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.

The wind of revolutions is not tractable.

So long as ignorance and poverty exist on earth, books of the nature of Les Miserables cannot fail to be of use.

With a tiny bit of effort, the nettle would be useful; if you neglect it, it becomes a pest. So then we kill it. How many men are like nettles My friends, there is no such thing as a weed and no such thing as a bad man. There are only bad cultivators.