"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 have a great love for music, and I believe it is the language of the soul."

"I have a great horror of marriage, and I would rather be damned than married."

"I am a lover of liberty, and I cannot bear to see it trampled under foot."

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