The world is not a factory and animals are not products for our use

Genuine contempt, on the other hand, is the unsullied conviction of the worthlessness of another.

The business of the novelist is not to relate great events, but to make small ones interesting.

Mankind cannot get on without a certain amount of absurdity.

A word too much always defeats its purpose.

On the path of actions, great heart is the chief recommendation; on that works, a great head.

That the outer man is a picture of the inner, and the face an expression and revelation of the whole character, is a presumption likely enough in itself, and therefore a safe one to go on; borne out as it is by the fact that people are always anxious to see anyone who has made himself famous. Photography offers the most complete satisfaction of our curiosity.