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.

I exist," murmurs someone whose name is Everyone. "I'm young and in love; I am old and I want rest; I work, I prosper, I do good business, I have houses to rent, money in State Securities; I am happy, I have wife and children; I like all these things and I want to go on living, so leave me alone."... There are moments when all this casts a deep chill on the large-minded pioneers of the human race.

The beautiful has but one type, the ugly has a thousand.

A stout heart may be ruined in fortune but not in spirit.

The supreme ordeal, let us say rather, the only ordeal, is the loss of the beloved being.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.

All animals are to be found in men and each of theme exists in some man, sometimes several at the time.