“The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.”

We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.

Government is essentially immoral.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.

People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.

Education has for its object the formation of character.

Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.

Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.

The money pigs of capitalist democracy: Money has made slaves of us. Money is the curse of mankind. It smothers the seed of everything great and good. Every penny is sticky with sweat and blood.

Happiness is like a butterfly.

Man is and remains an animal. Here a beast of prey, there a housepet, but always an animal.

It is through this mysterious power that we too have our being, and we therefore yield to our neighbors, even to our animal neighbors, the same right as ourselves to inhabit this vast land.

Speaking of competition in the fast-food industry. This is rat eat rat, dog eat dog. I’ll kill ’em, and I’m going to kill ’em before they kill me.

If a cow laughed, would milk come out her nose?

You can make even a parrot into a learned political economist – all he must learn are the two words “supply” and “demand.”

The highway of life is filled with flat squirrels that couldn’t make a decision.