Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they do.

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

Symmetry is ennui, and ennui is the very essence of grief and melancholy. Despair yawns.

The convent is supreme egotism resulting in supreme self-denial.

Monastic incarceration is castration.

For prying into any human affairs, none are equal to those whom it does not concern.

The malicious have a dark happiness.

Liberation is not deliverance.

Whom man kills, him God restoreth to life.