When I was twelve I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.

I mean being a child was being a child was being a creature without power without pocket money without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

Man is not the creature of circumstances circumstances are the creatures of men. We are free agents and man is more powerful than matter.

The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.

The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

Every creature is better alive than dead men and moose and pine trees and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures whether angels or men is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal immutable and increased wisdom of God.