“How is it that from beauty I have derived a type of unloveliness?from the covenant of peace a simile of sorrow? But as, in ethics, evil is a consequence of good, so, in fact, out of joy is sorrow b...”

“To muse for long unwearied hours with my attention riveted to some frivolous device upon the margin, or in the typography of a book to become absorbed for the better part of a summer's day in a qu...”

“Misery is manifold. The wretchedness of earth is multiform. Overreaching the wide horizon as the rainbow, its hues are as various as the hues of that arch, --as distinct too, yet as intimately blen...”

“In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of the mind.”

“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no effect. I loved you because you were marvelous, because you had genius and inte...”

“Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”

“But spontaneity is not by any means a blind, disorderly urge, a mere power of caprice. A philosophy restricted to the alternatives of conventional language has no way of conceiving an intelligence ...”