"I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down."

"I have great faith in fools - self-confidence my friends will call it."

"There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told."

"I have... for the metaphysical poets [William Wordsworth, etc.], as poets, the most sovereign contempt. That they have followers proves nothing."

"The women, too, it appears, were oddly deformed by a natural protuberance of the region just below the small of the back—although, most unaccountably, this deformity was looked on altogether in the li…"