He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You are Happy now!

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.