“Many people believe that they are attracted by God, or by Nature, when they are only repelled by man.”

“It is quite natural and inevitable that, if we spend sixteen hours daily of our waking lives in thinking about the affairs of the world and five minutes in thinking about God and our souls, this world will seem two hundred times more real to us than God.”

“The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.”

“what is originality ? undetected plagiarism!”

“The proper time to influence the character of a child is about a hundred years before he is born.”

“Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next. ”

“It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism, while the wolf remains of a different opinion.”