"I have been in love with a great many women. I have never been in love with a man."

"I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow."

"To be good, a double entendre should be at least good English when viewed on either side. Now we may lay by a piece of money — but we lie by a wife."

"Almighty God! —no, no! They heard! —they suspected! —they knew! —they were making a mockery of my horror! —this I thought, and this I think."

"All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry."