Life is too bitter already, without territories and wars and noble feuds

My boy, you shall be everything in the world, animal, vegetable, mineral, protista, or virus, for all I care-before I have done with you-but you will have to trust my superior backsight. The time is not yet ripe for you to be a hawk... so you may as well sit down for the moment and learn to be a human being.

The fate of this man or that man was less than a drop, although it was a sparkling one, in the great blue motion of the sunlit sea.

Dogs, like very small children, are quite mad.

If it takes a million years for a fish to become a reptile, has Man, in our few hundred, altered out of recognition?

It seems, in tragedy, that innocence is not enough.

Education is experience, and the essence of experience is self-reliance.