"If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad."

"I have a great contempt for the world, and I am not ashamed to own it."

"If she had been a few years younger, what a fool she would have made of me had she thought it worth her while."

"All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith."

"I have a great contempt for all cant, whether religious, political, or moral."