When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.