If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

The apparent ease with which children learn is their ruin.

A paralyzed man who wants to walk OR an agile man who does not want to walk will both remain neutral in nature.

It is in man's heart that the life of nature's spectacle exists; to see it, one must feel it.

Inopportune consolations increase a deep sorrow.

The animals you eat are not those who devour others; you do not eat the carnivorous beasts, you take them as your pattern. You only hunger for the sweet and gentle creatures which harm no one, which follow you, serve you, and are devoured by you as the reward of their service.

I had been brought up in a church which decides everything and permits no doubts, so that having rejected one article of faith I was forced to reject the rest.