Lions Would Have Fared Better, Had Lions

From The Age Of Fifteen, Dogma Has Been The Fundamental Principle Of My Religion: I Know No Other Religion; I Cannot Enter Into The Idea Of Any Other Sort Of Religion; Religion, As A Mere Sentiment, Is To Me A Dream And A Mockery.

Virtue Is Its Own Reward, And Brings With It The Truest And Highest Pleasure; But If We Cultivate It Only For Pleasure's Sake, We Are Selfish, Not Religious, And Will Never Gain The Pleasure, Because We Can Never Have The Virtue.

There Is In Stillness Oft A Magic Power To Calm The Breast When Struggling Passions Lower, Touched By Its Influence, In The Soul Arise Diviner Feelings, Kindred With The Skies.

Man Is Emphatically Self-made.

Now What Is It That Moves Our Very Hearts And Sickens Us So Much At Cruelty Shown To Poor Brutes?.. They Have Done Us No Harm And They Have No Power Of Resistance... There Is Something So Very Dreadful, So Satanic, In Tormenting Those Who Have Never Harmed Us, Who Cannot Defend Themselves, Who Are Utterly In Our Power.