Still we live meanly like ants, though the fable tells us we were long ago changed into men.

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain. I have had twenty-five or thirty souls, with their bodies, at once under my roof, and yet we often parted without being aware that we had come very near to one another.

Shall I not have intelligence with the earth? Am I not partly leaves and vegetable mould myself.

The animal merely makes a bed, which he warms with his body, in a sheltered place; but man, having discovered fire, boxes up someair in a spacious apartment, and warms that.... Thus he goes a step or two beyond instinct, and saves a little time for the fine arts.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

Remember that you need not eat unless you are hungry.