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

Let us leave to the brain what belongs to it, and agree that the work of the men of genius is of the superhuman, the offspring of man.

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Right is right only when entire.

That men saw his mask, but the bishop saw his face. That men saw his life, but the bishop saw his conscience.

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