"I am constitutionally nervous—high-strung. I have a morbid dread of solitude."

"The secret of a poem, no less than a jest's prosperity, lies in the ear of him that hears it."

"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."

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

"The true genius is the man who can do the average thing when everyone else around him is losing his mind."