I ask one thing only: I ask for the right to hope, to suffer as I do. But if even that cannot be, command me to disappear, and I disappear. You shall not see me if my presence is distasteful to you.

There is trouble with a wife, but it's even worse with a woman who is not a wife.

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

Everything I know, I know because of love.

Here I am...wanting to accomplish something and completely forgetting it must all end--that there is such a thing as death.

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

Debates conceal rather than reveal the truth. Truth is revealed in solitude.