Not being heard is no reason for silence. - Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

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

"Un sceptique qui adhère à un croyant cela est simple comme la loi des couleurs complémentaires.Ce qui nous manque nous attire."

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

"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."

"He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two."