“Ants, like human beings, can create civilizations without the use of reason.”

“Universities are full of knowledge; the freshmen bring a little in and the seniors take none away, and knowledge accumulates.”

“Humans, particularly those influenced by the Judeo-Christian ethic, see themselves as rulers of the earth, an attitude stemming not from divine doctrines, but rather from human interpretation of them. Those governed by such erroneous tenets look upon animals as chattels, organisms that have been divinely created for human use and convenience. But domestic animals are the work of man. The wolf and all other wild beings are the work of nature; they are PURE WILD, gloriously so. This is why a wolf can never be owned; it cannot be mastered.”

“[W]alking sometimes in a perfectly desolate plain where there have been no houses nor trees to guide me, I have been occasionally compelled to remain stationary for hours together, waiting till the rain came before continuing my journey.”

“Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.”

“Attend to your Configuration.”

“To be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, ans that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impoitently happy.”