For the rest, he was the same to all men, the fashionable world and the ordinary people. He judged nothing in haste, or without taking account of the cirumstances. He said, 'Let me see how the fault arose.

When all was said, his fate, however ugly it might prove to be, was in his own hands; he was its master.

Death belongs to God alone. By what right do men touch that unknown thing?

There are certain natures which cannot have love on one side without hatred on the other.

Isn't there in every human soul...an initial spark, a divine element, incorruptible in this world, immortal in the next, that good can bring out, prime, ignite, set on fire and cause to blaze splendidly, and that evil can never extinguish?

Blessed be Providence which has given to each his toy: the doll to the child, the child to the woman, the woman to the man, the man to the devil!

In opposition to this celestial tenderness, he summoned up pride, the fortress of evil in man.