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

The true sage is not he who sees, but he who, seeing the furthest, has the deepest love for mankind.

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

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

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

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 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.