Humanity is our common lot. All men are made of the same clay. There is no difference, at least here on Earth, in the fate assigned to us. We come of the same void, inhabit the same flesh, are dissolved in the same ashes. But ignorance infecting the human substance turns it black, and that incurable blackness, gaining possession of the soul, becomes Evil.

What is the cat?" he exclaimed. "It is a corrective. God, having made the mouse, said, 'I've made a blunder.' And he made the cat. The cat is the erratum of the mouse. The mouse, plus the cat, Is the revised and corrected proof of creation.

They say love is blindness of heart; I say not to love is blindness.

I would rather be the head of a fly than the tail of a lion.

God will reward you,' he said. 'You must be an angel since you care for flowers.

There are no rules for felicity.

[T]he small is great, the great is small; all is in equilibrium in necessity.