“Try as one may, it is impossible to deny one's nature”
“By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox.”
“When one tries to rise above Nature one is liable to fall below it. The highest type of man may revert to the animal if he leaves the straight road of destiny.”
“Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.”
“We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.”
“That little boys and girls should be tormented is what no one at all acquainted with human nature in a civilized state can deny.”