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

For if we take the ages into our account, may there not be a civilization going on among brutes as well as men?

For more than five years I maintained myself thus solely by the labour of my hands, and I found, that by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living.

Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.

Whatever is, and is not ashamed to be, is good.

The fact which the politician faces is merely that there is less honor among thieves than was supposed, and not the fact that theyare thieves.

I find it, as ever, very unprofitable to have much to do with men. It is sowing the wind, but not reaping even the whirlwind; onlyreaping an unprofitable calm and stagnation. Our conversation is a smooth, and civil, and never-ending speculation merely.