It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big.

Compassion for animals is intimately associated with goodness of character, and it may be confidently asserted that he who is cruel to animals cannot be a good man.

He who does not enjoy solitude will not love freedom.

If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.

People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

That a god like Jehovah should have created this world of misery and woe, out of pure caprice, and because he enjoyed doing it, and should then have clapped his hands in praise of his own work, and declared everything to be very good-that will not do at all!