"The devil is a gentleman, and you must treat him as such."

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

"I am a creature of impulse, and I cannot resist the temptation of a new idea."

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

"I never met a man who wasn't a beast in comparison to him."