As with stomachs, we should pity minds that do not eat.
To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.
The rich's paradise was created by the poor's hell.
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.
I refuse the oration of all churches. I ask a prayer of all souls. I believe in God.
A shadow is hard to seize by the throat and dash to the ground.