The soul in the darkness sins, but the real sinner is he who caused the darkness.

Initiative is doing the right thing without being told.

He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.

Happiness wishes everybody happy.

A republic may be called the climate of civilization.

We are on the side of religion as opposed to religions, and we are among those who believe in the wretched inadequacy of sermons and the sublimity of prayer.

Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.