Aversion

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every six months

Work is a necessary evil to be avoided

Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.

Love means to love that which is unlovable; or it is no virtue at all

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad

One does not love a place the less for having suffered in it, unless it has been all suffering, nothing but suffering

Let us have care not to disclose our hearts to the those who shut up theirs against us

Love, friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

The Public is a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility

I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman, they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence

Mortality weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep

Nothing is to me more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new-married couple

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.

Everybody should do at least two things each day that he hates to do, just for practice.