Look for a long time at what pleases you, and a longer time at what pains you.

In its early stages, insomnia is almost an oasis in which those who have to think or suffer darkly take refuge.

beautiful December grapes, blue as plums, every grape a little skinful of sweet, tasteless water

A few days later, I found my mother beneath the tree, motionless with excitement, her head turned toward the heavens in which she would allow human religions no place.

Researchers, with science as their authority, will be able to cut animals up, alive, into small pieces, drop them from a great height to see if they are shattered by the fall, or deprive them of sleep for sixteen days and nights continuously for the purposes of an iniquitous monograph. . . . Animal trust, undeserved faith, when at last will you turn away from us? Shall we never tire of deceiving, betraying, tormenting animals before they cease to trust us?

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.