Heaven, on occasion, half opens its arms to us; and that is the great moment.

Love is the only future God offers.

There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.

The peasants of the Asturias believe that in every litter of wolves there is one pup that is killed by the mother for fear that on growing up it would devour the other little ones.

Despotism is a long crime.

Knowledge is a weight added to conscience.

Diamonds are found only in the dark bowels of the earth; truths are found only in the depths of thought. It seemed to him that after descending into those depths after long groping in the blackest of this darkness, he had at last found one of these diamonds, one of these truths, and that he held it in his hand; and it blinded him to look at it. (pg. 231)