We are all of us born in moral stupidity, taking the world as an udder to feed our supreme selves

The pride of the body is a barrier against the gifts that purify the soul.

I am feeling easy now, and you will well understand that after undergoing pain this ease is opening paradise. Invalids must be excused for being eloquent about themselves.

Plain women he regarded as he did the other severe facts of life, to be faced with philosophy and investigated by science.

When the animals entered the Ark in pairs, one may imagine that allied species made much private remark on each other, and were tempted to think that so many forms feeding on the same store of fodder were eminently superfluous, as tending to diminish the rations.

It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.

Animals are such agreeable friends.