A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

Consider your origins: you were not made to live as brutes but to follow virtue and knowledge.

The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts but men of brains who will not face them.

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world.

The wise are instructed by reason average minds by experience the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.

Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand but our ears are stopped with wisdom.

To bathe a cat takes brute force perseverance courage of conviction - and a cat. The last ingredient is usually hardest to come by.

To play safe I prefer to accept only one type of power: the power of art over trash the triumph of magic over the brute.

He that can live alone resembles the brute beast in nothing the sage in much and God in everything.