In a few generations more, there will probably be no room at all allowed for animals on the earth: no need of them, no toleration of them. An immense agony will have then ceased, but with it there will also have passed away the last smile of the world’s youth.

More from The Quality of Mercy (1900)

• Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
• A cruel story runs on wheels, and every hand oils the wheels as they run. Moths
• Petty laws breed great crimes.
• Take hope from the heart of man and you make him a beast of prey.
• To vice, innocence must always seem only a superior kind of chicanery.