The most perfect ape cannot draw an ape; only man can do that; but, likewise, only man regards the ability to do this as a sign of superiority.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

Man loves company - even if it is only that of a small burning candle.

Actual aristocracy cannot be abolished by any law: all the law can do is decree how it is to be imparted and who is to acquire it.

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted.

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.