"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."

"I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all."

"I have a great contempt for public opinion, and I always have."

"I have been in love with a great many women, and never loved one of them."

"I am not a Caesar, nor a Borgia, nor a Napoleon. I am only a poet."