"Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth."

"There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window."

"The two most evangelical groups in the world are atheists and vegetarians, especially the least knowledgeable and least intelligent individuals within those groups."

"If crime went down 100%, it would still be 50 times higher than it shoud be."

"Guilt is magical."

"Ah, what shall I be at fifty, should nature keep me alive, if I find the world so bitter when I am but twenty-five?"

"Everyone complains of his lack of memory, but nobody of his want of judgment."

"Whenever the literary German dives into a sentence, that is the last you are going to see of him until he emerges on the other side of his atlantic with his verb in his mouth."

"In the courtroom of the conscience, a case is always in progress."

"Conscience is the root of all true courage; if a man would be brave let him obey his conscience."

"It struck him really that he had never so lived with her as during this period of her silence; the silence was a sacred hush, a finer clearer medium, in which her idiosyncrasies showed."

"You cannot do a kindness too soon, for you never know how soon it will be too late."