These are dark radiances. They have no suspicion that they are to be pitied. Certainly they are so. He who does not weep does not see. They are to be admired and pitied, as one would both pity and admire a being at once night and day, without eyes beneath his lashes but with a star on his brow.

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

He who opens a school door, closes a prison.

There must be people who pray even for those who never pray.

Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.

Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.

To breathe Paris is to preserve one's soul.