“I am a man who, from his youth upwards, has been filled with a profound conviction that the easiest way of life is the best.”

“It is the man who all his life has been self-convicted of veracity whose lies find quickest credence.”

“What virtue is there in a man who demonstrates goodness because he has been bred to it? It is his habit from youth. But a man who has known unkindness and want, for him to be kind and charitable to those who have been the cause of his misfortunes, that is a virtuous man.”

“I believe that every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food, and from much food of any kind.”

“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”

“Looking behind, I am lifted with gratitude. Looking forward, I am filled with vision. Looking upward, I am filled with strength. Looking within, I discover peace.”