In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man.

Justice is the very last thing of all wherewith the universe concerns itself. It is equilibrium that absorbs its attention.

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

They think that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors, and they do not know that it is in the soul that things always happen, and that the world does not end at their housedoor.

Every year, in November, at the season that follows the hour of the dead, the crowning and majestic hours of autumn, I go to visit the chrysanthemums ... They are indeed, the most universal, the most diverse of flowers.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.