“No, really: I can't fight, I never could. I can't bring myself to dislike anyone enough.”

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

“The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.”

“I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.”

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them.”

“Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.”

“I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.”