"The unpardonable sin is to be a bore."

"I have a profound contempt for all humbug."

"In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost."

"Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so."

"Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence– whether much that is glorious– whether all that is profound– does not spring from d…"