I believe that pity is a law like justice, and that kindness is a duty like uprightness. That which is weak has a right to the kindness and pity of that which is strong. In the relations of man with the animals...there is a 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 humans ethics. Are there not here unsounded depths for the thinker? Is one to think oneself mad because one has the sentiment of universal pity in one's heart?

Social prosperity means man happy, the citizen free, the nation great.

Joy is the reflex of terror.

The most ferocious animals are disarmed by caresses to their young.

And so, being in Heaven, it was easy for him to lose sight of earth.

Women play with their beauty as children do with their knives. They wound themselves with it.

To err is human. To loaf is Parisian.