“It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.”
“It is better to die for an idea that will live, than to live for an idea that will die”
“any live man is better than any dead man but no live or dead man is very much better than any other live or dead man”
“So what if those stupid roosters don't want to crow? If we've learned to live without men, we can learn to live without cocks.”
“If you only have brains on your head you would be as good a man as any of them, and a better man than some of them. Brains are the only things worth having in this world, no matter whether one is a crow or a man.”
“It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.”