“Animals hear about death for the first time when they die.”

Truth is most beautiful undraped.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.

Men are the devils of the earth, and the animals are the tormented souls.

Treat a work of art like a prince; let it speak to you first.

We can regard our life as a uselessly disturbing episode in the blissful repose of nothingness.

Every parting gives a foretaste of death, every reunion a hint of the resurrection.

We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people.

It is difficult to find happiness within oneself, but it is impossible to find it anywhere else.

One should use common words to say uncommon things.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

The shortness of life, so often lamented, may be the best thing about it.

Wealth is like seawater; the more we drink, the thirstier we become, and the same is true of fame.

Music is the melody whose text is the world.

A sense of humor is the only divine quality of man.

The safest way of not being very miserable is not to expect to be very happy.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.

The eagle never lost so much time as when he submitted to learn of the crow

If I could do anything about the way people behave towards each other, I would, but since I can’t, I’ll stick to animals.

The lamb misused breeds public strife And yet forgives the butcher’s knife.

There’s a lot of us out here that are birds, man. We all need to just fly.

The misery of keeping a dog is his dying so soon. But, to be sure, if he lived for fifty years and then died, what would become of me?

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.