God has made the cat to give man the pleasure of caressing the tiger.
Nature has made a pebble and a female. The lapidary makes the diamond, and the lover makes the woman.
Inanimate objects sometimes appear endowed with a strange power of sight. A statue notices, a tower watches, the face of an edifice contemplates.
When the heart is dry the eye is dry.
Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.
At a certain depth of distress, the poor, in their stupor, groan no longer over evil, and are no longer thankful for good.