“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”

“I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.”

“I have been happy, though in a dream.I have been happy-and I love the theme:Dreams! in their vivid colouring of lifeAs in that fleeting, shadowy, misty strife”

“It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.”

“I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.”

“Years of love have been forgot, In the hatred of a minute.”

“Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.”