All happy families resemble one another, each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.

A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The chief difference between words and deeds is that words are always intended for men for their approbation, but deeds can be done only for God.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

If you want to be happy, be.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

In all history there is no war which was not hatched by the governments, the governments alone, independent of the interests of the people, to whom war is always pernicious even when successful.