God is the God of the animals in a far lovelier way, I suspect, than many of us dare to think, but he will not be the God of a man by making a good beast of him.

Until a man has love, it is well he should have fear. So long as there are wild beasts about, it is better to be afraid than secure.

You can't live on amusement. It is the froth on water - an inch deep and then the mud.

They are not the best students who are most dependent on books. What can be got out of them is at best only material; a man must build his house for himself.

The birds, the poets of the animal creation - what though they never get beyond the lyrical! - awoke to utter their own joy, and awake like joy in others of God's children.

It is only by loving a thing that you can make it yours.

There is no slave but the creature that wills against its Creator.