We are never the same with others as when we are alone. We are different, even when we are in the dark with them. – Maurice Maeterlinck
Many a happiness in life, as many a disaster, can be due to chance, but the peace within us can never be governed by chance. – Maurice Maeterlinck
Happiness is rarely absent it is we that know not of its presence. – Maurice Maeterlinck
In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there exists not one, excepting that of the dog, that ever gave a thought to the presence of man. – Maurice Maeterlinck