A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight nothing which is more important than his own personal safety is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Adapt yourself to the things among which your lot has been cast and love sincerely the fellow creatures with whom destiny has ordained that you shall live.
The only creatures that are evolved enough to convey pure love are dogs and infants.
For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
Every creature is better alive than dead men and moose and pine trees and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.
Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures whether angels or men is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal immutable and increased wisdom of God.
There's a lot of neuroscience now raising the question 'Is all the intelligence in the human body in the brain?' and they're finding out that no it's not like that. The body has intelligence itself and we're much more of an organic creature in that way.
But it has in addition an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence the human spirit and that man is a social creature.
If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence his noblest function is the search for truth.
It is conceded by all that man is the very highest type of all living creatures on the earth. His intelligence is far superior to that of any other earthly being.
The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd is the square root of the number of people in it.
Woman is the sun an extraordinary creature one that makes the imagination gallop.
Well I'm not good with sliminess. I hate the thought of creatures that have slime on them or creatures that leave a slimy trail. At home the sight of a slug can bring up my breakfast.
I work at home in the country and days will go by when except for my husband and son and the occasional UPS man the only sentient creatures that see me are my chickens and turkeys.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do so they can be ready to follow.
When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.