We are face to face with reality now; let us look at it well and pronounce our sentence; for this is the moment when we hold the proofs in our hands,… - Maurice Maeterlinck

It is sad to love and be unloved, but sadder still to be unable to love.

There may be human joy in doing good with definite purpose, but they who do good expecting nothing in return know a joy that is divine.

But how much care and study are needed to succeed in fulfilling this duty! And how complicated it has become since the days of the silent caverns and the great deserted lakes! It was all so simple, then, so easy and so clear. The lonely hollow opened upon the side of the hill, and all that approached, all that moved on the horizon of the plains or woods, was the unmistakable enemy.... But to-day you can no longer tell.... You have to acquaint yourself with a civilization of which you disapprove, to appear to understand a thousand incomprehensible things.... Thus, it seems evident that henceforth the whole world no longer belongs to the master, that his property conforms to unintelligible limits....