Happiness will never be any greater than the idea we have of it.

Each man has to seek out his own special aptitude for a higher life in the midst of the humble and inevitable reality of daily existence. Than this, there can be no nobler aim in life.

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.

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

At every crossroads on the path that leads to the future, tradition has placed 10,000 men to guard the past.

You do well to have visions of a better life than of every day, but it is the life of every day from which the elements of a better life must come.

The living are just the dead on holiday