Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are its tormented souls.

Everything that happens, happens of necessity.

Every genius is a great child; he gazes out at the world as something strange, a spectacle, and therefore with purely objective interest

Nothing shocks our moral feelings so deeply as cruelty does. We can forgive every other crime, but not cruelty. The reason for this is that it is the very opposite of compassion.

Reading is a mere makeshift for original thinking.

Life is a language in which certain truths are conveyed to us; if we could learn them in some other way, we should not live.