He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
To know, to think, to dream. That is everything.
One sees qualities at a distance and defects at close range.
The smaller it is the heart, more hatred houses.
Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.
The transept belfry and the two towers were to him three great cages, the birds in which, taught by him, would sing for him alone. Yet it was these same bells which had made him deaf; but mothers are often fondest of the child who has made them suffer most.