We shall not attempt to give the reader an idea of that tetrahedron nose-that horse-shoe mouth-that small left eye over-shadowed by a red bushy brow, while the right eye disappeared entirely under an enormous wart-of those straggling teeth with breaches here and there like the battlements of a fortress-of that horny lip, over which one of those teeth projected like the tusk of an elephant-of that forked chin-and, above all, of the expression diffused over the whole-that mixture of malice, astonishment, and melancholy. Let the reader, if he can, figure to himself this combination.

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

To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world, and that is an idea whose time as come.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

If you are stone, be magnetic; if a plant, be sensitive; but if you are human be love.