We cannot have two hearts, one for the animals and one for men. In cruelty towards the former and cruelty to the latter there is no difference but in the victim.

I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

Good manners require space and time.

Modesty and dew love the shade.

History teaches everything, even the future.

Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours. I am the fellow citizen of every being that thinks; my country is Truth.

To love for the sake of being loved is human, but to love for the sake of loving is angelic.