“I have no wish to talk nonsense.""If you did, it would be in such a grave, quiet manner, I should mistake it for sense.”

“Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.”

“... you think I am attacking them for talking nonsense? Not a bit! I like them to talk nonsense. That's man's one privilege over all creation. Through error you come to the truth! I am a man because I err! You never reach any truth without making fourteen mistakes and very likely a hundred and fourteen. And a fine thing too, in its way; but we can't even make mistakes on our own account! Talk nonsense, but talk your own nonsense, and I'll kiss you for it. To go wrong in one's way is better than to go right in someone else's.”

“There's plenty of sense in nonsense sometimes, if you wish to look for it.”

“I wish for you constantly for I want to talk about everybody and everything. I can't go up to a stranger & say 'your manners &looks have stirred me to this profound meditation'-”

“Only one mistake, Ezra! You should have talked to women.”