Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another.

Have patience awhile slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.