All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than the animals that know nothing. A day will come when science will turn upon its error and no longer hesitate to shorten our woes. A day will come when it will dare and act with certainty; when life, grown wiser, will depart silently at its hour, knowing that it has reached its term.

If the bee disappeared off the face of the earth, man would only have four years left to live.

At every crossroad on the way that leads to the future, each progressive spirit is opposed by a thousand men appointed to guard the past.

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

It is death that is the guide of our life, and our life has no goal but death.

An obstacle is not a discouragement. It may become one, but only with our own consent. So long as we refuse to be discouraged, we cannot be discouraged.

The souls of all our brethren are ever hovering about us, craving for a caress, and only waiting for the signal.