That is to be two and to be but one. A man and a woman mingled into one angel. It is heaven.

Those who live are those who fight.

You would have imagined her at one moment a maniac, at another a queen.

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

The convent, which belongs to the West as it does to the East, to antiquity as it does to the present time, to Buddhism and Muhammadanism as it does to Christianity, is one of the optical devices whereby man gains a glimpse of infinity.

Reaction - a boat which is going against the current but which does not prevent the river from flowing on.

Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls.