At the shrine of friendship never say die, let the wine of friendship never run dry

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.

. . .where there is no more hope, song remains.

In the relations of man with the animals, with the flowers, with all the objects of creation, there is a whole great ethic, scarcely perceived as yet, which will at length break through into the light, and which will be the corollary and the complement to human ethics.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Religions do a useful thing: they narrow God to the limits of man. Philosophy replies by doing a necessary thing: it elevates man to the plane of God.