“No person of quality ever remembers social restrictions save when considering how most piquantly to break them.”

“I ask of literature precisely those things of which I feel the lack in my own life.”

“Every notion that any man, dead, living, or unborn, might form as to the universe will necessarily prove wrong”

“That moving carcass does but very inadequately symbolizes you....a subtle and immortal spirit.”

“...[we] has left nothing durable to signalize his stay upon this planet.[we]eventually dies to the honest regret of [our] associates.”

“Our sole concern with the long dead is aesthetic”