All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.

A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.

Man's destructive hand spares nothing that lives; he kills to feed himself, he kills to clothe himself, he kills to adorn himself, he kills to attack, he kills to defend himself, he kills to instruct himself, he kills to amuse himself, he kills for the sake of killing.

Prejudice does not mean false ideas, but only ... opinions adopted before examination.

In the whole vast dome of living nature there reigns an open violence, a kind of prescriptive fury which arms all the creatures to their common doom: as soon as you leave the inanimate kingdom you find the decree of violent death inscribed on the very frontiers of life.

To know how to wait. It is the great secret of success.

All pain is a punishment, and every punishment is inflicted for love as much as for justice.