Life is neither to be wept over nor to be laughed at but to be understood.

Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see.

The intellectual attainments of a man who thinks for himself resemble a fine painting, where the light and shade are correct, the tone sustained, the colour perfectly hamonized; it is true to life.

The eternal being..., as it lives in us, also lives in every animal.

Nature shows that with the growth of intelligence comes increased capacity for pain, and it is only with the highest degree of intelligence that suffering reaches its supreme point.

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

Men need some kind of external activity, because they are inactive within.