"There is something pagan in me that I cannot shake off."

"I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence – this may look like affectation – but it is my real opinion – it is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."

"I wish he would explain his explanation."

"I am no Platonist, I am nothing at all; but I would sooner be a Paulician, Manichean, Spinozist, Gentile, Pyrrhonian, Zoroastrian, than one of the seventy-two villainous sects tearing each other to pi…"

"I have a great contempt for all cant, whether religious, political, or moral."