"...mothers are often fondest of the child which has caused them the greatest pain."

"What happened between those two beings? Nothing. They were adoring one another."

"Nobody loves the light like the blind man."

"Life is a theatre set in which there are but few practicable entrances."

"To die is nothing; but it is terrible not to live."

"Mothers arms are made of tenderness, And sweet sleep blesses the child who lies therein."

"The realities of life do not allow themselves to be forgotten."

"God knows better than we do what we need."

"Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet."

"And do you know Monsieur Marius? I believe I was a little in love with you."

"Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just."

"He loved books; books are cold but safe friends."

"Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen."

"Faith is necessary to men; woe to him who believes in nothing!"

"Fashions have done more harm than revolutions."

"Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education."

"The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves—say rather, loved in spite of ourselves."

"Every bird that flies has the thread of the infinite in its claw."

"There is one spectacle grander than the sea, that is the sky; there is one spectacle grander than the sky, that is the interior of the soul."

"He did not study God; he was dazzled by him."

"The beautiful is as useful as the useful." He added after a moment’s silence, "Perhaps more so."

"For there are many great deeds done in the small struggles of life."

"Love is the only future God offers."

"Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings."