The dog has no ambition, no self-interest, no desire for vengeance, no fear other than that of displeasing.

Man thinks, and at once becomes the master of the beings that do not think.

Style supposes the reunion and the exercise of all the intellectual faculties. The style is the man.

Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.

The discoveries that one can make with the microscope amount to very little, for one sees with the mind's eye and without the microscope the real existence of all these little beings.

The style is the man himself.

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.