He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often... - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

"where the telescope ends the microscope begins, and who can say which has the wider vision?"

"To love another person is to see the face of God."

"The power of a glance has been so much abused in love stories, that it has come to be disbelieved in. Few people dare now to say that two beings have fallen in love because they have looked at each other. Yet it is in this way that love begins, and in this way only."

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

"There are, as we know, powerful and illustrious atheists. At bottom, led back to the truth by their very force, they are not absolutely sure that they are atheists; it is with them only a question of definition, and in any case, if they do not believe in God, being great minds, they prove God."