Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

Animals are my friends… and I don’t eat my friends.

Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.