"Have the wild things no moral or legal rights? What right has man to inflict such long and fearful agony on a fellow creature, simply because that creature does not speak his language?"

"When you were quite a little boy, somebody ought to have said ``hush'' just once."

"We presume that we would be ready for battle if confronted with a great crisis, but it is not the crisis that builds something within usa€”it simply reveals what we are made of already."

"The purpose of a liberal arts education is to learn that a person can like both cats *and* dogs!"

"A wise system of education will at last teach us how little man yet knows, how much he has still to learn."

"I was much distressed by next door people who had twin babies and played the violin; but one of the twins died, and the other has eaten the fiddle - so all is peace."

"I'm glad we don't have to play in the shade."

"Work is not man's punishment. It is his reward and his strength and his pleasure."

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last."

"Reputations are created every day and every minute."

"The theory of evolution is outstandingly the most important theory in biology."

"I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion."