It often happens that a man is more humanely related to a cat or dog than to any human being.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

What we need to know in any case is very simple.

I would that I were worthy to be any man's Friend.

Wealth cannot purchase any great private solace or convenience. Riches are only the means of sociality.

This whole earth which we inhabit is but a point in space. How far apart, think you, dwell the most distant inhabitants of yonder star, the breadth of whose disk cannot be appreciated by our instruments?

If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste all my property, and so harass me and my children without end. This is hard, this makes it impossible for a man to live honestly, and at the same time comfortably, in outward respects.