Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow creatures is amusing in itself.
True greatness is the most ready to recognize and most willing to obey those simple outward laws which have been sanctioned by the experience of mankind.
Wild animals never kill for sport. Man is the only one to whom the torture and death of his fellow-creatures is amusing in itself.
Fear is the parent of cruelty.
We cannot live on probabilities. The faith in which we can live bravely and die in peace must be a certainty, so far as it professes to be a faith at all, or it is nothing.
Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.
Men are made by nature unequal. It is vain, therefore to treat them as if thy were equal.
The practical effect of a belief is the real test of its soundness.
Our human laws are but the copies, more or less imperfect, of the eternal laws, so far as we can read them.
