Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.

A little girl without a doll is almost as unhappy, and quite as impossible, as a woman without children." from chapter VIII of Les Miserables

Ideas can no more flow backward than can a river.

To love beauty is to see light.

What love commences can be finished by God alone.

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

To see so much misery everywhere, I suspect that God is not rich. He keeps up appearances, it is true, but I feel the pinch. He gives a revolution as a merchant, whose credit is low, gives a ball.