Look not at the face, young girl, look at the heart. The heart of a handsome young man is often deformed. There are hearts in which love does not keep. Young girl, the pine is not beautiful; it is not beautiful like the poplar, but it keeps its foliage in winter.

Every step which the intelligence of Europe has taken has been in spite of the clerical party.

There are no trifles in the human story, no trifling leaves on the tree.

There are moments when a rope's end, a pole, the branch of the tree, is life itself, and it is a frightful thing to see a living being lose his hold upon it, and fall like a ripe fruit.

Peace is the virtue of civilization. War is its crime.

I like the laughter that opens the lips and the heart, shows at the same time the pearls and the soul.

A library implies an act of faith.