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

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.

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

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

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

Many a happiness in life, a many a disaster, is due to chance alone; but the peace within us can never be governed by chance.

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