“My refusing to eat flesh occasioned an inconveniency, and I was frequently chided for my singularity, but, with this lighter repast, I made the greater progress, for greater clearness of head and quicker comprehension. Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.”

“If you eat one another, I don't see why we may not eat you.”

“Eat to live, don't live to eat.”

“Genius is nothing but a greater aptitude for patience.”

“A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.”

“All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.”

“Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.”