"I am sick of this world. I want to go to another."

"To write a good letter, you must have a good mind."

"I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time."

"I detest the actively good. It is the passively good who do the least harm."

"The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their courage. I like their completeness. I like their absence of humbug."