“While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?”

“When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, wither do we turn? To the murder column; and there we are rarely disappointed.”

“When a man says money can do anything that settles it: he hasn't got any. When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”

“When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them. But when they are away, we console ourselves for their absence by dwelling on their vices.”

“You may remember that on earth—though of course we never confessed it—the death of anyone we knew, even those we liked best, was always mingled with a certain satisfaction at being finally done with them.”

“Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.”

“O God that madest this beautiful earth, when will it be ready to receive Thy saints? How long, O Lord, how long?”