Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

When you get an idea into your head you find it in everything.

The production of souls is the secret of unfathomable depth.

As we have said, robust souls are sometimes almost, but not entirely, overthrown by strokes of misfortune....Despair has steps leading upward. From total depression we rise to despondency, from despondency to affliction, from affliction to melancholy. Melancholy is a twilight state in which suffering transmutes into a somber joy....Melancholy is the enjoyment of being sad.

If you wish to understand what Revolution is, call it Progress; and if you wish to understand what Progress is, call it Tomorrow.

There is something more terrible than a hell of suffering--a hell of boredom.

A library implies an act of faith.