The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

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Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.