"I am not what you call a civilised man! I have done with society entirely, for reasons which I alone have the right of appreciating. I do not, therefore, obey its laws, and I desire you never to allud…"

"We are like the two poles of a magnet, we attract each other."

"the Indians were in the act of plunging themselves into the drunkenness caused by liquid opium mingled with hemp."

"'There is no impossibility,' said the Professor, 'for him who wills.'"

"America is a land of money-grubbers without culture or refinement."