"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from d…"

"Why is a chain like the feline race? Because it's a catenation. — a catty nation."

"I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the de…"

"The singular feature of the mental structure of the ape is the faculty of imitation."

"Coquetry, like a regular army, but with its more formidable implements reserved in the background, is in the front and always ready for action."