There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

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

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.