For dogs we kings should have lions, and for cats, tigers. The great benefits a crown.

...We pray together, we are afraid together, and then we go to sleep. Even if Satan came into the house, no one would interfere. After all, what is there to fear in this house? There is always one with us who is the strongest. Satan may visit our house, but the good Lord lives here.

As the purse is emptied, the heart is filled.

...Human thought has no limit. At its risk and peril, it analyzes and dissects its own fascination. We could almost say that, by a sort of splendid reaction, it fascinates nature; the mysterious world surrounding us returns what it receives; it is likely that contemplators are contemplated.

The word is the Verb, and the Verb is God.

This book should be read as one would read the book of a dead man.

There are plenty who regard a wall behind which something is happening as a very curious thing.