Do me the favor to bring him to the Chalet to-morrow evening, and stay as long as possible; for it takes more than an hour for a man to show himself for what he is.

I shall be the first to see if he loves, if he can love, or if he ever will love Mademoiselle Modeste." "You are very young to--" "-- to be a professor," said Butscha, cutting short La Briere.

"Ha, monsieur, deformed folks are born a hundred years old.

And besides, a sick man who has long been sick, knows more than his doctor; he knows the disease, and that is more than can be said for the best of doctors.
Well, so it is with a man who cherishes a woman in his heart when the woman is forced to disdain him for his ugliness or his deformity; he ends by knowing so much of love that he becomes seductive, just as the sick man recovers his health; stupidity alone is incurable.

I have had neither father nor mother since I was six years old; I am now twenty-five.