"I have a great love for freedom, and I would rather die than be a slave."

"I have a great passion for horses, and I think they are much better than men."

"I hate women, and I love them."

"I have a great contempt for all governments, and I believe they are all corrupt."

"I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence – this may look like affectation – but it is my real opinion – it is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake."