"The more I think of it, the more I feel that there is something wrong with the whole business of publishing. The publishers are the real thieves."

"It is a fact that I have always placed my personal freedom before everything else."

"Oh continue to love me–never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours."

"I will seize Fate by the throat; it shall certainly not bend me completely to its will."

"Oh you people who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem so to you. From childhood on, my heart …"