If the path be beautiful, let us not ask where it leads.

Until you have loved an animal, part of your soul will have remained dormant.

What we call happiness is what we do not know.

That man is prudent who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future.

What men call civilization is the condition of present customs; what they call barbarism, the condition of past ones.

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.