To have lied is to have suffered.

A wedding is not house-keeping.

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.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

A few feet under the ground reigns so profound a silence, and yet so much tumult on the surface!

Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil.