Animals are not here for us to do as we please with. We are not their superiors, we are their equals. We are their family. Be kind to them.

It is supposed that there has been progress in the science of textual criticism, and the most frivolous pretender has learned to talk superciliously about “the old unscientific days”. The old unscientific days are everlasting; they are here and now; they are renewed perennially by the ear which takes formulas in, and the tongue which gives them out again, and the mind which meanwhile is empty of reflexion and stuffed with self-complacency.

The way of the superior person is threefold; virtuous, they are free from anxieties; wise they are free from perplexities; and bold they are free from fear.

The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions.

There is in the psyche some superior power, and if it is not consciously a god, it is the belly at least, in St. Paul’s words

Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any.