If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you.

I should not talk so much about myself if there were anybody else whom I knew as well.

A gun will give you the body, not the bird

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

If Nature is our mother, then God is our father.

The ways in which most men get their living, that is, live, are mere makeshifts, and a shirking of the real business of life,--chiefly because they do not know, but partly because they do not mean, any better.

I have no doubt that it is part of the destiny of the human race in its gradual improvement, to leave off eating animals.