There is in every village a torch - the teacher; and an extinguisher - the priest.

Her soul trembled on her lips like a drop of dew on a flower.

The most excellent symbol of the people is the paving stone. One walks on it until it falls on one's head.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

Son, brother, father, lover, friend. There is room in the heart for all the affections, as there is room in heaven for all the stars.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.