The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.
I am not apt to follow blindly the lead of other men.
We must, however, acknowledge, as it seems to me, that man with all his noble qualities… still bears in his bodily frame the indelible stamp of his lowly origin.
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely , multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
Besides love and sympathy, animals exhibit other qualities connected with the social instincts which in us would be called moral.
Those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Man selects only for his own good; Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
The shield may be as important for victory, as the sword or spear.
It is no the strongest of the species that survives, not the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.
There is no fundamental difference between man and animals in their ability to feel pleasure and pain, happiness, and misery.
The complete absence of sex always leads to an increase in creative activity.
ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge.
If you don’t build castle in the air, you won’t build anything on the ground.
The future has several names. For the weak, it is impossible; for the fainthearted, it is unknown; but for the valiant, it is ideal.
There’s nothing like a dream to create the future.
What is history? An echo of the past in the future — a reflex from the future on the past.
Our mind is enriched by what we receive, our heart by what we give.
To learn to read is to light a fire; every syllable that is spelled out is a spark.
Diamonds are to be found only in the darkness of the earth, and truth in the darkness of the mind.
Go out in the world and work like money doesn’t matter, sing as if no one is listening, love as if you have never been hurt, and dance as if no one is watching.
When you get an idea in to your head you find it in everything.
Be as a bird perched on a frail branch that she feels bending beneath her, still she sings away all the same, knowing she has wings.
Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.
Virtue has a veil, vice a mask.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
To divinize is human, to humanize is divine.
Concision in style, precision in thought, decision in life.
Caution is the eldest child of wisdom.
It is not easy to keep silent when silence is a lie.