"The highest intellect is but a shadow of the lowest intuition."

"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."

"It is not a matter of whether or not you will die, but of how you will live."

"The 99th part of literature is absolute rubbish. The one hundredth part is not so bad. The one hundredth part of that is worth reading."

"The women, too, it appears, were oddly deformed by a natural protuberance of the region just below the small of the back—although, most unaccountably, this deformity was looked on altogether in the li…"