We should remember in our dealings with animals that they are a sacred trust to us from our Heavenly Father. They are dumb and cannot speak for themselves.

One part of the science of living is to learn just what our own responsibility is, and to let other people's alone.

O, because I have had only that kind of benevolence which consists in lying on a sofa, and cursing the church and clergy for not being martyrs and confessors. One can see, you know, very easily, how others ought to be martyrs.

I never thought my book would turn so many people against slavery.

Half the misery in the world comes of want of courage to speak and to hear the truth plainly and in a spirit of love.

Come down here once, and use your eyes, and you will know more than we can teach you.

To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.