When the true criminals are running around free, the only honorable place for a decent human being is in prisons.

We are always paid for our suspicion by finding what we suspect.

Glances of true beauty can be seen in the faces of those who live in true meekness.

Surely the apple is the noblest of fruits.

To speak or do anything that shall concern mankind, one must speak and act as if well, or from that grain of health which he has left.

In all her products, Nature only develops her simplest germs. One would say that it was no great stretch of invention to create birds. The hawk which now takes his flight over the top of the wood was at first, perchance, only a leaf which fluttered in its aisles. From rustling leaves she came in the course of ages to the loftier flight and clear carol of the bird.

I think that Nature meant kindly when she made our brothers few. However, my voice is still for peace.