From one seed a whole handful: that was what it meant to say the bounty of the earth.

I speak to the broken halves of all our selves and tell them to embrace, loving the worst in us equally with the best.

Because a women's beauty does not belong to her alone. It is a part of the bounty she brings into the world. She has a duty to share it.

We are not by nature cruel.

There are works of literature whose influence is strong but indirect because it is mediated through the whole of the culture rather than immediately through imitation. Wordsworth is the case that comes to mind.

Strictly speaking, my interest is not in legal rights for animals but in a change of heart towards animals.

It seemed to me that all things were possible on the island, all tyrannies and cruelties, though in small; and if, in despite of what was possible, we lived at peace with another, surely this was proof that certain laws unknown to us held sway, or else that we had been following the promptings of our hearts all this time, and our hearts had not betrayed us.