Morality, when vigorously alive, sees farther than intellect, and provides unconsciously for intellectual difficulties.

Nature is not a partisan, but out of her ample treasue house she produces children in infinite variety, of which she is equally the mother, and disowns none of them.

Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.

The secret of a person's nature lies in their religion and what they really believes about the world and their place in it.

High original genius is always ridiculed on its first appearance; most of all by those who have won themselves the highest reputation in working on the established lines. Genius only commands recognition when it has created the taste which is to appreciate it.

Where nature is sovereign, there is no need of austerity and self-denial.

Carelessness is inexcusable, and merits the inevitable sequence.