It is the peculiarity of grief to bring out the childish side of man.

The great acts of love are done by those who are habitually performing small acts of kindness.

As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer.

To commit the least possible sin is the law for man. To live without sin is the dream of an angel. Everything terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation.

The most powerful symptom of love is a tenderness which becomes at times almost insupportable.

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.

Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood.