"I am a lover of Mankind, and a believer in the divinity of man."

"The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself."

"I love to see a tree, which has been growing a hundred years, cut down and split into planks."

"I love all waste and solitary places; where we taste the pleasure of believing what we see is boundless, as we feel our affections."

"Reviewers, with some rare exceptions, are a most stupid and malignant race."