"I love to see a tree, which has been growing a hundred years, cut down and split into planks."

"Dull,—oh so dull, so very dull! Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed, Still with this dulness was he cursed!"

"Love is free: to promise for ever to love the same woman, is not less absurd than to promise to believe the same creed: such a vow in both cases, excludes us from all enquiry."

"I always go on until I am stopped, and I never am stopped."

"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."