There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learnt a very, very small part of what it can do.

What happened was no accident. Everything was preordained. True, the will was free, but heaven also made its ordinances.

Each soul must accomplish its task, or it would not have been sent here.

Even in the worm that crawls in the earth there glows a divine spark. When you slaughter a creature, you slaughter God.

Night is a time of rigor, but also of mercy. There are truths which one can see only when it’s dark

As often as Herman had witnessed the slaughter of animals and fish, he always had the same thought: in their behavior toward creatures, all men were Nazis. The smugness with which man could do with other species as he pleased exemplified the most extreme racist theories, the principle that might is right.

The New England conscience doesn't keep you from doing what you shouldn't - it just keeps you from enjoying it.