“If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.”
“One day of happiness is worth more than a lifetime of sorrow .... Under ordinary circumstances, jealousy is a suspicion to the person who excites it and degrading to the person who indulges it.”
“The person who commits an action is the one responsible for it, not the people he commits the action upon.”
“I'm the kind of person who has to totally commit to whatever I do.”
“Here was an occasion, she thought, for indulging in that deliberate rudeness which only persons with habitually good manners have the right to commit...”
“the greatest evil perpetrated is the evil committed by nobodies, that is, by human beings who refuse to be persons”