Live in contact with dreams and you will get something of their charm: live in contact with facts and you will get something of their brutality. I wish I could find a country to live in where the facts were not brutal and the dreams not real.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.