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

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

“And, moreover, when it happens that both are sincere and good, nothing will mix and amalgamate more easily than an old priest and an old soldier. In reality, they are the same kind of man. One has devoted himself to country upon earth, the other to his country in heaven; there is no other difference.”

“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.”

“The peculiarity of prudery is to station the more sentries the less the fortress is menaced.”

“Daring is the price of progress. All splendid conquests are the prize of boldness, more or less.”

“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.”