"I regard society as a species of animal which preys upon its own kind."

"I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind."

"In the ludicrous heightened into the grotesque; the fearful coloured into the horrible; the witty exaggerated into the burlesque; the singular wrought out into the strange and mystical. You may say al…"

"To be thoroughly conversant with at least one branch of human knowledge is a desideratum of the first importance."

"From childhood's hour I have not been As others were—I have not seen As others saw—I could not bring My passions from a common spring."