Civilization survives on the constant discovery of amity and an equal supply of damnation.

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

Women are more credulous than men.

The memory of an absent person shines in the deepest recesses of the heart, shining the more brightly the more wholly its object has vanished: a light on the horizon of the despairing, darkened spirit; a star gleaming in our inward night.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

These two beings, who had loved each other so exclusively, and with so touching a love, and who had lived so long for each other, were now suffering beside one another and through one another; without speaking of it, without harsh feeling, and smiling all the while.

There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.