Thought is a key to all treasures.
Thought alone holds the tradition of the bygone life. The endless legacy of the past to the present is the secret source of human genius.
Though the great things of life are simple to understand and easy to express, the littlenesses require a vast number of details to explain them.
Though all things in society as well as in the universe are said to have a purpose, there do exist here below certain beings whose purpose and utility seem inexplicable.
They who listen to only one bell hear only one sound.
Therefore Prayer, issuing from so many trials, is the consummation of all truths, all powers, all feelings.
There is something great and terrible about suicide.
There is one way of saying that word “nothing” between lovers which signifies its exact contrary.
There is often more pleasure in suffering than in happiness; look at the martyrs!
There is no great talent without a strong will.
There is no good fete without a morrow.
There are those whose character is like a chestnut without a kernel.
