It is in the treatment of trifles that a person shows what they are.

Pride works from within; it is the direct appreciation of oneself.

The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

It often happens that we blurt out things that may in some kind of way be harmful to us, but we are silent about things that may make us look ridiculous; because in this case effect follows very quickly on cause.

To conceal a want of real ideas, many make for themselves an imposing apparatus of long compound words, intricate flourishes and phrases, new and unheard-of expressions, all of which together furnish an extremely difficult jargon that sounds very learned. Yet with all this they say-precisely nothing.

What makes people hard-hearted is this, that each man has, or fancies he has, as much as he can bear in his own troubles.

Will without intellect is the most vulgar and common thing in the world, possessed by every blockhead, who, in the gratification of his passions, shows the stuff of which he is made.