Good or bad I propose to be something great!

This world is too peaceful, too acquiescent, too tame. It is a circumcised world. Nay! - a castrated world! It must be made fiercer, before it can become grander and better and - more natural.

Women have ever been the stumbling block and betrayers of ambition.

Disobedience is the stamp of the hero.

There is no field of activity for great men without the coming of great wars, great struggles and great revolutions.

Nothing so lowers a lover in a virile maiden's estimation, than for him to be 'whipped' in a personal encounter with a rival.

Those three divine attributes of a perfect woman: goodness, beauty and wealth.