Love is a fault; so be it.
The real, native South Seas food is lousy. You can't eat it.
If you are leaving that sorrowful place with hate and anger against men, you are worthy of compassion; if you leave it with good will, gentleness and peace, you are better than any of us.
Good actions are the invisible hinges on the doors of heaven.
When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.