"An agility astounding, a strength superhuman, a ferocity brutal, a butchery without motive, a grotesquerie in horror absolutely alien from humanity..."

"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."

"I am not mad; I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw."

"To be thoroughly conversant with at least one branch of human knowledge is a desideratum of the first importance."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years…"