I wanted to see you again, touch you, know who you were, see if I would find you identical with the ideal image of you which had remained with me and perhaps shatter my dream with the aid of reality. -Claude Frollo

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.

No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never to be afflicted.

To love another person is to see the face of God.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

Is there not in every human soul a primitive spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world and immortal in the next, which can be developed by goodness, kindled, lit up, and made to radiate, and which evil can never entirely extinguish.

Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance, and her sunlight from before human cruelty or suffering.