Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

A wedding is not house-keeping.

To a gargoyle on the ramparts of Notre Dame as Esmeralda rides off with Gringoire Quasimodo says. "Why was I not made of stone like thee?

A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

You look at a star for two reasons, because it is luminous, and because it is impenetrable. You have beside you a sweeter radiance and a greater mystery, woman.

Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.