The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

You who suffer because you love, love still more. To die of love, is to live by it.

I have been loving you a little more every minute since this morning.

If people did not love one another, I really don't see what use there would be in having any spring.

Those who do not weep, do not see.

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

Life's great happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

As for methods of prayer, all are good, as long as they are sincere.

The pupil dilates in darkness and in the end finds light, just as the soul dilates in misfortune and in the end finds God.

Love is the only future God offers.

A cannonball travels only two thousand miles an hour; light travels two hundred thousand miles a second. Such is the superiority of Jesus Christ over Napoleon.

What have we to fear, we who believe?

The mysterious world that surrounds us returns what it receives. The contemplators are probably contemplated.

Did I exist before my birth? No. Shall I exist after my death? No. What am I? A little dust bound together by an organism.

It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.

Nobody knows like a woman how to say things that are both sweet and profound. Sweetness and depth, this is all of woman; this is Heaven.

Yes, the brutalities of progress are called revolutions. When they are over, this is recognised: that the human race has been harshly treated, but that it has advanced.

A library implies an act of faith which generations, still in darkness hid, sign in their night in witness of the dawn."À qui la faute? (1872)

This first glance of a soul which does not yet know itself is like dawn in the heavens; it is the awakening of something radiant and unknown.

Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent

It is nothing to die. It is frightful not to live.

I see black light (his last words)

The guillotine is the ultimate expression of Law, and its name is vengeance; it is not neutral, nor does it allow us to remain neutral.

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

Be happy without picking flaws.

Every day has its great grief or its small anxiety. ... One cloud is dispelled, another forms. There is hardly one day in a hundred of real joy and bright sunshine.

There is nothing like a dream to create the future.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist, it is by the ideal that we live.

In joined hands there is still some token of hope, in the clinched fist none.

Laughter is the Sun that drives winter from the human face

Profound hearts, wise minds, take life as God makes it; it is a long trial, and unintelligible preparation for the unknown destiny.

A writer is a world trapped in a person.

Science says the first word on everything, and the last word on nothing.