The prosperity of right is that it is always beautiful and pure.

His brain was in one of those states that are both violent and yet frighteningly calm, in which thought runs so deep it blots out reality. You no longer see the objects around you, yet you can see the shapes in your mind as thought they are outside your body.

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

In love there are no friends everywhere where there is a pretty woman hostility is open.

If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but the one who causes the darkness. (Monseigneur Bienvenu in _Les Miserables_).

A day will come when there will be no battlefields, but markets opening to commerce and minds opening to ideas.