Animals will be seen on the earth who will always be fighting against each other with the greatest loss and frequent deaths on each side. And there will be no end to their malignity; by their strong limbs we shall see a great portion of the trees of the vast forests laid low throughout the universe; and, when they are filled with food the satisfaction of their desires will be to deal death and grief and labour and wars and fury to every living thing; and from their immoderate pride they will desire to rise towards heaven, but the too great weight of their limbs will keep them down.

If we would learn what the human race really is at bottom, we need only observe it in election times.

That's the trouble with the world. We all despise ourselves.

When the suffering of another creature causes you to feel pain, do not submit to the initial desire to flee from the suffering one, but on the contrary, come closer, as close as you can to her who suffers, and try to help her.

Feathers shall raise men even as they do birds towards heaven :- That is by letters written with their quills.

High and fine literature is wine, and mine is only water; but everybody likes water.