This dog, which, although no beauty, was of an uncommon breed, I had made my friend and companion; and it certainly deserved the name better than the majority of those who had assumed it.

At sixteen, the adolescent knows about suffering because he himself has suffered, but he barely knows that other beings also suffer.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Consolation indiscreetly pressed upon us, when we are suffering undue affliction, only serves to increase our pain, and to render our grief more poignant.

Liberty is obedience to the law which one has laid down for oneself

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

I long remained a child, and I am still one in many respects.