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

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

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.

Wisdom is the health of the soul.

At the moment when her eyes closed, when all feeling vanished in her, she thought that she felt a touch of fire imprinted on her lips, a kiss more burning than the red-hot iron of the executioner.

It is sad to tell, but after having tried society, which had caused his misfortune, he tried Providence which created society, and condemned it also.

The hatred of luxury is not an intelligent hatred. It implies a hatred of arts.