Every man and every living creature has a sacred right to the gladness of springtime.

Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Not one word, not one gesture of yours shall I, could I, ever forget.

Eating meat is a leftover of the greatest brutality [killing]; the transition to vegetarianism is the first and most natural consequence of enlightenment.

They've got no idea what happiness is, they don't know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us--there is no life.

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

At the approach of danger two voices speak with equal force in the heart of man: one very reasonably tells the man to consider the nature of the danger and the means of avoiding it and the other, even more reasonable, says that it is too painful and harassing to think of the danger... better to turn aside from the painful subject till it has come, and to think of what is pleasant. In solitude a man generally yields to the first voice; in society to the second.