“When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.”

“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?”

“When a man says money can do anything that settles it: he hasn't got any. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”

“You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.”

“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.”

“What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.”