Each day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.

All wanting comes from need, therefore from lack, therefore from suffering.

Rascals are always sociable, more's the pity! and the chief sign that a man has any nobility in his character is the little pleasure he takes in others' company.

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

A high degree of intellect tends to make a man unsocial.

A hedge between keeps friendship green.