It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.

A cat can be trusted to purr when she is pleased, which is more than can be said for human beings.

The command, 'Be fruitful and multiply', was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two persons.

But the instinct of hoarding, like all other instincts, tends to become hypertrophied and perverted; and with the institution of private property comes another institution-that of plunder and brigandage. In private life, no motive of action is at present so powerful and so persistent as acquisitiveness, which unlike most other desires, knows no satiety. The average man is rich enough when he has a little more than he has got, and not till then.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

I have no fear that the candle lighted in Palestine years ago will ever be put out.

Bereavement is the deepest initiation into the mysteries of human life, an initiation more searching and profound than even happy love.