“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. ”

“Joy is the reflex of terror.”

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

“Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that it may come that we are about to die.”

“Love, the future is thine. Death, I make use of thee, but I hate thee. Citizens, in the future there will be neither darkness nor thunderbolts; neither ferocious ignorance, nor bloody retaliation. As there will be no more Satan, there will be no more Michael. In the future no one will kill any one else, the earth will beam with radiance, the human race will love. The day will come, citizens, when all will be concord, harmony, light, joy and life; it will come, and it is in order that is may come that we are about to die.”

“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.”