I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.

Mothers who force their daughters into interested marriage, are worse than the Ammonites who sacrificed their children to Moloch--the latter undergoing a speedy death, the former suffering years of torture, but too frequently leading to the same result.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

I wish to be moved. I cannot feel in life. I must have others do it for me in theater.

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

To pick out the wildest and most fantastical odd man alive, and to place your kindness there, is an act so brave and daring as will show the greatness of your spirit and distinguish you in love, as you are in all things else, from womankind.

any experiment of interest in life will be carried out at your own expense