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.

What a man is: that is to say, personality, in the widest sense of the word; under which are included health, strength, beauty, temperament, moral character, intelligence, and education.

In early youth, as we contemplate our coming life, we are like children in a theatre before the curtain is raised, sitting there in high spirits and eagerly waiting for the play to begin.

The less one, as a result of objective or subjective conditions, has to come into contact with people, the better off one is for it.

In our monogamous part of the world, to marry means to halve one's rights and double one's duties.

For the world is Hell, and men are on the one hand the tormented souls and on the other the devils in it.

Man is never happy, but spends his whole life in striving after something which he thinks will make him so.