The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

Men are the only animals who devote themselves assiduously to making one another unhappy.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.