"I have a great horror of marriage, and I would rather be damned than married."

"I hate things all fiction… there should always be some foundation of fact for the most airy fabric and pure invention is but the talent of a liar."

"They used to say that knowledge is power. I used to think so, but I know now they mean money."

"The petrifactions of a plodding brain."

"I have a great love for animals, and I prefer them to human beings."