There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.

It is a law of nature that every decent man on earth is bound to be a coward and a slave

Just take a look around you: Blood is flowing in rivers and in such a jolly way you’d think it was champagne.

It is necessary that every man have at least somewhere to go. For there are times when one absolutely must go at least somewhere!

There is, indeed, nothing more annoying than to be, for instance, wealthy, of good family, nice-looking, fairly intelligent, and even good-natured, and yet to have no talents, no special faculty, no peculiarity even, not one idea of one's own, to be precisely "like other people.

He seemed, indeed, to accept everything without the least condemnation though often grieving bitterly.

Love the animals, love the plants, love everything. If you love everything, you will perceive the divine mystery in things. Once you perceive it, you will begin to comprehend it better every day. And you will come at last to love the whole world with an all-embracing love.