“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”
“I can only say that friendship should rise above man-made laws, which tend to be capricious by their very nature.”
“My husband is a good man," she said. "It's important to him to be a good man. He has to not only be good, he has to believe that he's good. In the eyes of God, in my eyes, in his parents' eyes, in his own eyes. Good.”
“Man lives only to learn. And if he learns it is because it is the nature of his lot, for good or bad.”
“Walking is the only form of transportation in which a man proceeds erect - like a man - on his own legs, under his own power. There is immense satisfaction in that.”
“It is only natural, of course, that each man should think his own opinions best: the crow loves his fledgling, and the ape his cub.”