“I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned.”

“I am Envy, begotten of a chimney-sweeper and an oyster-wife. I cannot read, and therefore wish all books were burnt; I am lean with seeing others eat - O that there would come a famine through all the world, that all might die, and I live alone; then thou should'st see how fat I would be! But must thou sit and I stand? Come down, with a vengeance!”

“I only wish to be gone. Therefore, I AM.”

“Each time I read a book, I cataloged the parts that struck me dumb with envy and admiration for their beauty and power and truth.”

“I am nothing.I will never be anything.I cannot wish to be anything.Bar that, I have in me all the dreams of the world.”

“His statement to himself should have been 'I possess this now,therefore I am happy' , instead of what it so Victorianly was: 'I cannot possess this forever, therefore I am sad.”