A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose.

Only kings, presidents, editors, and people with tapeworms have the right to use the editorial 'we.'

It is just like man's vanity and impertinence to call an animal dumb because it is dumb to his dull perceptions. Heaven is by favor; if it were by merit your dog would go in and you would stay out. Of all the creatures ever made he (man) is the most detestable. Of the entire brood, he is the only one...that possesses malice. He is the only creature that inflicts pain for sport, knowing it to be pain. The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to the other creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature that cannot.

Our consciences take no notice of pain inflicted on others until it reaches a point where it gives pain to us.

There is more real pleasure to be gotten out of a malicious act, where your heart is in it, than out of thirty acts of a nobler sort.

If the desire to kill and the opportunity to kill came always together, who would escape hanging?

It was the schoolboy who said, ""Faith is believing what you know ain't so.""