We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.