My greatness does not extend to this shelf.

Idleness, pleasure, what abysses! To do nothing is a dreary course to take, be sure of it. To live idle upon the substance of society! To be useless, that is to say, noxious! This leads straight to the lowest depth of misery.

The first proof of charity in a priest, and especially a bishop, is poverty.

A house is built of logs and stone, of tiles and posts and piers; a home is built of loving deeds that stand a thousand years.

To introduce a new play only six weeks after another has been banned is also a way to speak one's piece to the government. It proves that art and liberty can grow back in one night under the clumsy foot which crushes them.

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.

Love is a fault; so be it.