"I have a profound contempt for all hypocrisy."

"It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think are the works of God with a sentiment of profoundest reverence, as the highest manifestations of the…"

"It is impossible to say how first the idea entered my brain; but once conceived, it haunted me day and night."

"I am a firm believer in the doctrine of original sin."

"If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me."