In the distance, the gestures of animals look human, the gestures of human beings bestial.

Our expression and our words never coincide, which is why the animals don't understand us.

The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.

Animals awaken, first facially, then bodily. Men's bodies wake before their faces do. The animal sleeps within its body, man sleeps with his body in his mind.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Women eat while they are talking; men talk while they are eating.

The idealist walks on tiptoe, the materialist on his heels.