A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run.

Petty laws breed great crimes.

Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men,...

Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.

Familiarity is a magician that is cruel to beauty but kind to ugliness.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but...