There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

There is no distress so complete but that even in the most critical moments the inexplicable sunrise of hope is seen in its depths.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

God is behind everything, but everything hides God.

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God.