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

We can never judge a soul above the high water mark of our own.

It is only in the space that our thoughts and our feelings enclose that our happiness can breathe in freedom.

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.

To be happy is only to have freed one's soul from the unrest of unhappiness.

The manner in which the hours of freedom are spent determines, no less than labor and war, the moral worth of a nation.

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.