The rare moment is not the moment when there is something worth looking at, but the moment when we are capable of seeing.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

How anyone can profess to find animal life interesting and yet take delight in reducing the wonder of any animal to a bloody mass of fur or feathers?

In the long run our boasted control of nature is a delusion.

Rhetoric takes no real account of the art in literature and morality takes no account of the art in life.

Custom has furnished the only basis which ethics have ever had.

If people destroy something replaceable made by mankind, they are called vandals; if they destroy something irreplaceable made by God, they are called developers.