"I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him."

"And so being young and dipt in folly / I fell in love with melancholy."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human progress is an illusion, that man is not an animal that can be perfected, but an animal that can be improved."

"The value of a conundrum is in exact proportion to the extent of its demerit, and that it is only positively good when it is outrageously and scandalously absurd."

"Yet mad I am not...and very surely do I not dream."