“There will be no proof that I ever was a writer.”

“Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.”

“We all have wings, but they have not been of any avail to us and if we could tear them off, we would do so.”

“Life is merely terrible; I feel it as few others do. Often — and in my inmost self perhaps all the time — I doubt whether I am a human being.”

“Now I can look at you in peace; I don't eat you any more.”

“To do a great right do a little wrong.”

“Time is the old justice that examines all such offenders, and let Time try.”

“Do not cast away an honest man for a villain's accusation.”