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

Every institution not only carries within it the seeds of its own dissolution, but prepares the way for its most hated rival.

The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.

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

The wise man is he who knows the relative value of things.

We have enslaved the rest of the animal creation, and have treated our distant cousins in fur and feathers so badly that beyond doubt, if they were able to formulate a religion, they would depict the Devil in human form.

The jealous man is so preoccupied with what he hasn't got that he fails to appreciate the value of what he has got. He loses the ability to feel glad because the sun is shining. He doesn't see the wonder and the newness of the beginning of spring.