And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you.

Phenomena intersect; to see but one is to see nothing.

It is the essence of truth that it is never excessive. Why should it exaggerate? There is that which should be destroyed and that which should be simply illuminated and studied. How great is the force of benevolent and searching examination! We must not resort to the flame where only light is required.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.

Nothing is more true, more real, than the primeval magnetic disturbances that two souls may communicate to one another, through the tiny sparks of a moment's glance.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.