Any man who does not have his inner world to translate is not an artist.
[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.
White men should exhibit the same insensibility to moral tortures that red men do to physical torments.
Books follow morals, and not morals books.
Modesty was made for the ugly.
Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!