Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Die, very good, but do not make others die. Suicides like the one which is about to take place here are sublime, but suicide is restricted, and does not allow of extension; and so soon as it affects your neighbors, suicide becomes murder.

Have but luck, and you will have the rest; be fortunate, and you will be thought great.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

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.

Now, one cannot read nonsense with impunity.

There are people who observe the rules of honor as one observes the stars, from a great distance.