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.

The dog who meets with a good master is the happier of the two.

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

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

To disdain today is to prove that yesterday has been misunderstood.

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.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.