Suffering... We owe to it all that is good in us, all that gives value to life; we owe to it pity, we owe to it courage, we owe to it all the virtues.

It is by acts, and not by ideas, that people ensure the bar down the street cannot have a patio.

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

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

It is by acts and not by ideas that people live.

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

Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable; the other, who cries, makes it sacred.