He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Revery, which is thought in its nebulous state, borders closely upon the land of sleep, by which it is bounded as by a natural frontier.
A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn.
The sadness which reigned everywhere was but an excuse for unfailing kindness.
Progress is the life-style of man.