“A Christian should be an Alleluia from head to foot”
“I often look around in a church at the utterly expressionless faces singing "Alleluia! Alleluia!" and wonder why we don't let our faces know what our lips are saying.”
“The veil of self-indulgence was rent from head to foot. I saw my life as a whole.”
“The duchess turned on Eugène with one of those insolent stares that envelop a man from head to foot, flatten him out, and leave him at zero.”
“Darkness deserves gratitude. It is the alleluia point at which we learn to understand that all growth does not take place in the sunlight.”
“How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found his borders.”