If you shut up truth and bury it under the ground, it will but grow, and gather to itself such explosive power that the day it bursts through it will blow up everything in its way.

She was cold by nature, self-love predominating over passion; rather than being virtuous, she preferred to have her pleasures all to herself.

It is not I who am strong, it is reason, it is truth.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

Man's highest duty is to protect animals from cruelty.

When you have a sorrow that is too great it leaves no room for any other.

And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life