Life to the great majority is only a constant struggle for mere existence, with the certainty of losing it at last.

The difficulty is to try and teach the multitude that something can be true and untrue at the same time.

In the blessings as well as in the ills of life, less depends upon what befalls us than upon the way in which it is met.

Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.

Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

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.

To read a book is to hold an entire world in the palm of your hand. That world is unique to you; no two readers can ever inhabit the same world