In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.

A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.

An American monkey, after getting drunk on brandy, would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

What a book a devil's chaplain might write on the clumsy, wasteful, blundering, low, and horribly cruel work of nature!