It is only in the microscope that our life looks so big. It is an indivisible point, drawn out and magnified by the powerful lenses of Time and Space.

Money alone is absolutely good, because it is not only a concrete satisfaction of one need in particular; it is an abstract satisfaction of all.

Where there is no love, a person's faithfulness to the marriage bond is probably against nature.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

The first forty years of our life give the text, the next thirty furnish the commentary upon it, which enables us rightly to understand the true meaning and connection of the text with its moral and its beauties.

Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.

The young should early be trained to bear being left alone; for it is a source of happiness and peace of mind.