"I have a great admiration for Napoleon, and I believe he was the greatest man that ever lived."

"In morality, I prefer Confucius to the ten Commandments and Socrates to St. Paul."

"A drop of ink may make a million think."

"I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence – this may look like affectation – but it is my real opinion – it is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."

"I am of a very peculiar constitution of mind, I am never happy but when I am miserable."