The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

The common man is not concerned about the passage of time, the man of talent is driven by it.

The tallest oak tree once was an acorn that any pig could have swallowed.

The assumption that animals are without rights, and the illusion that our treatment of them has no moral significance, is a positively outrageous example of Western crudity and barbarity. Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.

A man who has not enough originality to think out a new title for his book will be much less capable of giving it new contents.

Faith is like love: it does not let itself be forced.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.