What dangers you run, O noble souls! Often, you give your heart, but we take only your body. Your heart is left to you and you look at it in the shadows and shudder.

Conscience is God present in man.

Don't educate your children to be rich. Educate them to be happy, so they know the value of things, not the price.

He was fond of books, for they are cool and sure friends

You are adorable, mademoiselle. I study your feet with the microscope and your soul with the telescope.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.