Word which the finger of God has written on the brow of every man — hope!

My misfortune is that I still resemble a man too much. I should liked to be wholly a beast like that goat. - Quasimodo

Every bird which flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw.

Woe, alas, to those who have loved only bodies, forms, appearances! Death will rob them of everything. Try to love souls, you will find them again.

Tobacco is the plant that converts thoughts into dreams.

Nothing is more dangerous than to stop working. It is a habit that can soon be lost, one that is easily neglected and hard to resume. A measure of day-dreaming is a good thing, like a drug prudently used ... But too much submerges and drowns. Woe to the intellectual worker who allows himself to lapse wholly from positive thinking into day-dreaming. He thinks he can easily change back, and tells himself that it is all one. He is wrong! To substitute day-dreaming for thought is to confuse poison with a source of nourishment.

It is from books that wise men derive consolation in the troubles of life.