“When he judged himself, that was his supreme moment.”

“At the end of time when God judges us humans, I just hope He remembers to judge Himself as well.”

“When silence greeted her question, she looked at Caine—for that was how he saw himself in that moment and in all the moments after: his brother’s murderer.”

“Man’s first law is to watch over his own preservation; his first care he owes to himself; and as soon as he reaches the age of reason, he becomes the only judge of the best means to preserve himself; he becomes his own master.”

“The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.”

“You know, a man always judges himself by the balance he can strike between the needs of his body and the demands of his mind. You're judging yourself now, Mersaut, and you don't like the sentence.”