"I am, in point of fact, a particularly freakish specimen."

"I was a modest, good-humored boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable."

"The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to find a bad name for its opponents."

"If a man's future is not in his own hands, he will seek it in the stars."

"To be a man is to suffer, to be a woman is to suffer, to be a human is to suffer."