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

"The true genius is a man who can say what he likes without being understood."

"I am a man of the world, and have seen much of its evil. I have also seen something of its good."

"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years…"

"It is an evil growing out of our republican institutions, that here a man of large purse has usually a very little soul which he keeps in it."