A wife's a worry, a non-wife's even worse.

Once we're thrown off our habitual paths, we think all is lost, but it's only here that the new and the good begins.

My piece of bread only belongs to me when I know that everyone else has a share, and that no one starves while I eat.

When ignorance does not know something, it says that what it does not know is stupid.

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

Can it be that I have not lived as one ought?" suddenly came into his head. "But how not so, when I've done everything as it should be done?

Is it possible to say what one really feels?