Hope is a delusion; no hand can grasp a wave or a shadow.

The saints were his friends, and blessed him; the monsters were his friends, and guarded him.

When two souls have finally found each other, there is established between them a union which begins on earth and continues forever in heaven.

Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds.

Let us sacrifice one day to gain perhaps a whole life.

While contemplating the bride, and eyeing the cake of soap, he muttered between his teeth: 'Tuesday. It was not Tuesday. Was it Tuesday? Perhaps it was Tuesday. Yes, it was Tuesday.' No one has ever discovered to what this monologue referred. Yes, perchance, this monologue had some connection with the last occasion on which he had dined, three days before, for it was now Friday.

Teach the ignorant as much as you can; society is culpable in not providing a free education for all and it must answer for the night which it produces. If the soul is left in darkness sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who causes the darkness.