"I would rather be a worm than a man."

"I almost wish we were butterflies and liv'd but three summer days—with a rose and a myrtle tree."

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination."

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up ones mind about nothing."