If you love yourself meanly, childishly, timidly, even so shall you love your neighbor.

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

In any event, a truth that disheartens, because it is true, is still of far more value than the most stimulating of falsehoods.

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

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

I have never for one instant seen clearly within myself. How then would you have me judge the deeds of others?

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.