"Sorrow is knowledge: they who know the most must mourn the deepest o'er the fatal truth, the Tree of Knowledge is not that of Life."

"Now hatred is by far the longest pleasure; Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure."

"All tragedies are finished by a death, All comedies are ended by a marriage; The future states of both are left to faith."

"I am a very solitary man, and I prefer the company of books to that of men."

"I am a lover of liberty, and I cannot bear to see it trampled under foot."