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

"I have made up my mind to get rid of my wife. I have a plan for it."

"Almighty God! —no, no! They heard! —they suspected! —they knew! —they were making a mockery of my horror! —this I thought, and this I think."

"The Tale originated in a bet that I could produce nothing effective on a subject so singular, provided I treated it seriously."

"I have a profound conviction that the world is a species of gigantic jest—a jest of the most elaborate and stupendous—of the most complicated and august—and of the most utterly incomprehensible charac…"