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

"I am an atheist, a republican, and a lover of mankind."

"I am a lover of Mankind, and a believer in the divinity of man."

"A poet is a nightingale who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds."

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