Love each other dearly always. There is scarcely anything else in the world but that: to love one another.

Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.

From the oyster to the eagle, from the swine to the tiger, all animals are to be found in men and each of them exists in some man, sometimes several at the time. Animals are nothing but the portrayal of our virtues and vices made manifest to our eyes, the visible reflections of our souls. God displays them to us to give us food for thought.

Solitude either develops the mental power, or renders men dull and vicious.

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

But when ill indeed, Even dismissing the doctor don't always succeed.

To lie a little is not possible: he who lies, lies the whole lie.