“And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.”

“What I feel for you seems less of earth and more of a cloudless heaven.”

“Being good is easy, what is difficult is being just.”

“A reflection from this heaven shone upon the bishop. But it was also a luminous transparency, for this heaven was within him: this heaven was his conscience.”

“At his feet something to cultivate and gather; above his head something to study and meditate on; a few flowers on earth and all the stars in heaven.”

“As for the bishop, the sight of the guillotine was a great shock to him, from which he recovered only slowly.”

“He sleeps although so much he was denied. He lived and when his dear love left him died. It happened of itself, in the easy way that in the morning night time follows day”