"I love man as my fellow; but his scepter, real, or usurped, extends not to me, unless the reason of an individual demands my homage."

"I have been in love with a man of my own sex, and have found him as capricious as any of the other."

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

"I am not born to tread in the beaten track."

"I am not a slave to the fashion of the day, nor to the prejudice of any age."