"I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human integrity has been ruined by the fall, and that I am a member of the ruined species."

"I have no faith in any system of religion that does not preach universal charity."

"The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?"

"I am a Virginian, and have a natural right to be a gentleman."

"The universe is a sphere whose center is everywhere and circumference nowhere."