I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

If you get into the habit of being quick it is just as easy as being slow.

If a thing is right it can be done, and if it is wrong it can be done without; and a good man will find a way.

Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, `Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.