“Joy is the reflex of terror.”

“What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.”

“These are true felicities. No joy beyond these joys. Love is the only ecstasy, everything else weeps”

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy. ”

“The peculiarity of sunrise is to make us laugh at all our terrors of the night, and our laugh is always proportioned to the fear we have had.”

“Our joys have shadows. The perfect smile belongs to God alone.”

“But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.”