Man must not check his reason by tradition, but, contrariwise, must check tradition by reason.

Drama, instead of telling us the whole of a man's life, must place him in such a situation, tie such a knot, that when it is untied, the whole man is visible.

Patriotism is the principle that will justify the training of wholesale murderers.

If you're not enjoying your work, you should either change your attitude, or change your job.

Beautiful as seemed mama's face, it became more lovely when she smiled and seemed to enliven everything about her.

It is horrible! It is not the suffering and the death of the animals that is horrible, but the fact that the man without any need for so doing crushes his lofty feeling of sympathy and mercy for living creatures and does violence to himself that he may be cruel. The first element of moral life is abstinence.

Are we not all flung into the world for no other purpose than to hate each other, and so to torture ourselves and one another?