In the animal world no creature born to be a dove turns into a scavenger. This happens only among men.

In this way, his unhappy soul struggled with its anguish. Eighteen hundred years before this unfortunate man, the mysterious Being, in whom all the sanctities and all the sufferings of humanity come together, He too, while the olive trees trembled in the fierce breath of the Infinite, had brushed away the fearful cup that appeared before him, streaming with shadow and running over with darkness, in the star-filled depths. (pg. 236)

There shall be no slavery of the mind.

Nothing is really small; whoever is open to the deep penetration of nature knows this.

It is most pleasant to commit a just action which is disagreeable to someone whom one does not like.

She had had sweet dreams, which possibly arose from the fact that her little bed was very white.

There are many tongues to talk, and but few heads to think.