Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

I do not know what I think until I write it.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.