The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

We do not comprehend everything, but we insult nothing.

When the heart is dry the eye is dry.

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.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united.