I will be Chateaubriand or nothing.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

No one knows like a woman how to say things which are at once gentle and deep.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

A fall from such a height is rarely straight downwards.

I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.