The reduction of the universe to the compass of a single being, and the extension of a single being until it reaches God - that is love. Love is the salute of the angels to the stars. How sad is the heart when rendered sad by love! How great is the void created by the absence of the being who alone fills the world.

A sewer is a cynic. It tells All.

You say, "Where goest Thou?" I cannot tell, And still go on. But if the way be straight I cannot go amiss: before me lies Dawn and the day: the night behind me: that Suffices me: I break the bounds: I see, And nothing more; believe and nothing less. My future is not one of my concerns.

The man who does not know other languages, unless he is a man of genius, necessarily has deficiencies in his ideas.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

Indigestion is charged by God with enforcing morality on the stomach.

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.