Give to a being the useless, and deprive him of the needful, and you have the gamin.

On this point, the priest and the philosopher agree: We must die.

What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

My day's work will begin again the next morning. The tomb is not a blind alley.

These Greek capitals, black with age, and quite deeply graven in the stone, with I know not what signs peculiar to Gothic calligraphy imprinted upon their forms and upon their attitudes, as though with the purpose of revealing that it had been a hand of the Middle Ages which had inscribed them there, and especially the fatal and melancholy meaning contained in them, struck the author deeply.

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.