Nobody sees a flower really,it is so small. We haven't time,and to see takes time- like to have a friend takes time. One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled, but few are educated.

It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.

Instead of inflicting these horrible punishments, it would be far more to the point to provide everyone with some means of livelihood, so that nobody's under the frightful necessity of becoming, first a thief, and then a corpse.

We cannot go to heaven in featherbeds.

It is part of the business of life to be affable and pleasing to those whom either nature, chance or circumstance has made our companions.

The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.

They have no lawyers among them, for they consider them as a sort of people whose profession it is to disguise matters.