I don't believe in religion, for I don't see that your religious people are any better than the rest.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind to man and beast, it is all a sham.

We call them dumb animals, and so they are, for they cannot tell us how they feel, but they do not suffer less because they have no words.

Good Luck is rather particular who she rides with, and mostly prefers those who have got common sense and a good heart; at least that is my experience.

It is good people who make good places

If you in the morning Throw minutes away, You can't pick them up In the course of a day. You may hurry and scurry, And flurry and worry, You've lost them forever, Forever and aye.

What right had they to make me suffer like that?

My troubles are all over, and I am at home; and often before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my friends under the apple trees.

My troubles are over, and I am finally home.

Now I say that with cruelty and oppression it is everybody's business to interfere when they see it.

Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats.

Live, love and learn

Regard mistakes as teachers, not judges!

Come on, " he said. "Bring the poker."I brought the tongs as well. I felt like it.

You can't not be happy around penguins. You're unfortunately happy and cold but the happiness makes up for the coldness.

The less the difference, the greater the quarrel over it.

What is this? Some sort of galactic hyperhearse?

Some authors regard morality in the same light as we regard modern architecture. Convenience is the first thing to be looked for.

All the animals come out at night.

All truth is precious, if not all divine; and what dilates the powers must needs refine.