“I could settle down into a state ofequable low spirits, and resign myself to coffee.”

“A spirit that was once a man could hardly feel stranger or lonelier, going unrecognized among mankind, than I feel.”

“The secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.”

“I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time.”

“The contention came, after all, to this - the secret was such an old one now, had so grown into me and become a part of myself, that I could not tear it away.”

“If you could say, with truth, to your own solitary heart, to-night, 'I have secured to myself the love and attachment, the gratitude or respect, of no human creature; I have won myself a tender place in no regard; I have done nothing good or serviceable to be remembered by!' your seventy-eight years would be seventy-eight heavy curses; would they not?”

“Poetry's unnat'ral; no man ever talked in poetry 'cept a beadle on boxin' day, or Warren's blackin' or Rowland's oil, or some o' them low fellows; never you let yourself down to talk poetry, my boy.”