When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.

If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.