If God had intended that man should go backward, he would have given him eyes in the back of his head.

It is man's consolation that the future is to be a sunrise instead of a sunset.

Large, heavy, ragged black clouds hung like crape hammocks beneath the starry cope of the night. You would have said that they were the cobwebs of the firmament.

A breath of Paris preserves the soul.

That is the explanation of war, an outrage by humanity upon humanity in despite of humanity.

God will bless you,' said he, 'you are an angel since you take care of the flowers.' 'No,' she replied. 'I am the devil, but that's all the same to me.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness.