“Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.”

Principles for the Development of a Complete Mind: Study the science of art. Study the art of science. Develop your senses- especially learn how to see. Realize that everything connects to everything else.

We are deceived by promises and time disappoints us.

Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.

Patience serves as a protection against wrongs as clothes do against cold.

The greatest geniuses sometimes accomplish more when they work less.

Man has much power of discourse which for the most part is vain and false; animals have but little, but it is useful and true, and a small truth is better than a great lie.

Time stays long enough for those who use it.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

All our knowledge has its origin in our perceptions.

Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.

The length of a man’s outspread arms is equal to his height.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do.

The smallest feline is a masterpiece.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

Human ‘beans’ is the only animals that is killing their own kind.

Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable.

Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.

No animal has more liberty than the cat, but it buries the mess it makes. The cat is the best anarchist.

Man is by nature a social animal; an individual who is unsocial naturally and not accidentally is either beneath our notice or more than human.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.

I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.