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.

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.

He who sees without loving is only straining his eyes in the darkness.

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

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

Is not every action of Hamlet induced by a fanatical impulse, which tells him that duty consists in revenge alone? And dose it need superhuman efforts to recognize that revenge never can be duty? I say again that Hamlet thinks much, but that he is by no means wise.