The dog is the only living being that has found and recognizes an indubitable, tangible and definite god. He knows to whom above him to give himself. He has not to seek for a superior and infinite power.

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

It is the evil that lies in ourselves that is ever least tolerant of the evil that dwells within others.

To be good we must needs have suffered; but perhaps it is necessary to have caused suffering before we can become better.

We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them.

Brave old-flowers! Wall-flowers, Gilly flowers, Stocks! For even as the field-flowers, from which a trifle, a ray of beauty, a drop of perfume, divides them, they have charming names, the softest in the language; and each of them, like tiny, art-less ex-votos, or like medals bestowed by the gratitude of men, proudly bears three or four.

At every crossway on the path that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past. Let us have no fear that the fair towers of former days be sufficiently defended. The least that the most timid among us can do is not to add to the immense dead weight that nature drags along.