It would not be possible for Noah to do in our day what he was permitted to do in his own ... The inspector would come and examine the Ark, and make all sorts of objections.

We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains - chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment - in a word, Circumstance, and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain.

Let us live so that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

After my marriage she edited everything I wrote. And what is more, she not only edited my works, she edited me.

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and man.

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty.

Man is the only slave. And he is the only animal who enslaves. He has always been a slave in one form or another, and has always held other slaves in bondage under him in one way or another. In our day, he is always some man's slave for wages, and does that man's work; and this slave has other slaves under him for minor wages, and they do his work. The higher animals are the only ones who exclusively do their own work and provide their own living.