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.

THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

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

Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason.

The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.