He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart

In justifying cruelty to animals we put ourselves also on the animal level. We choose the jungle and must abide by our choice.

Do not by any means destroy yourself, for if you live you may yet have good fortune, but all the dead are dead like.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.

Good and evil both increase at compound interest. That is why the little decisions you and I make every day are of such infinite importance. The smallest good act today is the capture of a strategic point from which, a few months later, you may be able to go on to victories you never dreamed of. An apparently trivial indulgence in lust or anger today is the loss of a ridge or railway line or bridgehead from which the enemy may launch an attack otherwise impossible.

Each generation exercises power over its successors: and each, in so far as it modifies the environment bequeathed to it and rebels against tradition, resists and limits the power of its predecessors.