Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

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.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

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

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

There is one spectacle grander than the sea, That is the sky.