Creation lives, grows, and multiplies; man is but a witness.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

Love resembles a tree: it bends under its own weight, deeply rooted in our being and sometimes turns green in the ruins of a heart.

As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.

Wide horizons lead the soul to broad ideas; circumscribed horizons engender narrow ideas; this sometimes condemns great hearts to become small minded.Broad ideas hated by narrow ideas,-this is the very struggle of progress.

He had, they said, tasted in succession all the apples of the tree of knowledge, and, whether from hunger or disgust, had ended by tasting the forbidden fruit.

Let us fear the worst, but work with faith; the best will always take care of itself.