If you want to know how you feel about someone take note of the impression an unexpected letter from him makes on you when you first see it on the doormat.
Every parting is a foretaste of death, and every reunion a foretaste of resurrection.
After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.
Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.
The assumption that animals are without rights and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
The first rule of style is have something to say.
Money is human happiness in the abstract; and so the man who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete, sets his whole heart on money.
We seldom think of what we have, but always of what we lack.
Life and dreams are leaves of one and the same book. The systematic reading is real life, but when the actual reading hour (the day) has come to an end, and we have the period of recreation, we often continue idly to thumb over the leaves, and turn to a page here and there without method or connection. We sometimes turn up a page we have already read, at others one still unknown to us, but always from the same book.