The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

How much longer is the world willing to endure this spectacle of wanton cruelty?

No opinion has ever been too errant to become a creed.

I believe that when I die I shall rot, and nothing of my ego will survive.

For a good notation has a subtlety and suggestiveness which at times make it seem almost like a live teacher.

Moral progress has consisted in the main of protest against cruel customs, and of attempts to enlarge human sympathy.

When you meet with opposition, even if it should be from your husband or your children, endeavor to overcome it by argument and not by authority, for a victory dependent upon authority is unreal and illusory.