How evil life must be if it were indeed necessary that such imploring cries, such cries of physical and moral wretchedness, should ever and ever ascend to heaven!

If people can just love each other a little bit, they can be so happy.

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets and terrors?

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

There are two men inside the artist, the poet and the craftsman. One is born a poet. One becomes a craftsman.

I am spending delightful afternoons in my garden, watching everything living around me. As I grow older, I feel everything departing, and I love everything with more passion.

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