Victor Hugo

"The least possible sin is the law of man. No sin at all is the dream of the angel. All which is terrestrial is subject to sin. Sin is a gravitation."

Madame Magloire once said to him with a kind of gentle reproach: ‘Monseigneur, you are always anxious to make everything useful, but yet here is a plat that is of no use. It would be much better to have salads there than bouquets.’ ‘Madame Magloire,’ replied the bishop, ‘you are mistaken. The beautiful is as useful as the useful.’ He added, after a moment’s silence, ‘perhaps more so.’

This is the shade of meaning; the door of a physician should never be closed; the door of a priest should always be open.’