“I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.”

“And all I loved, I loved alone.”

“For my own part, I have never had a thought which I could not set down in words, with even more distinctness than that with which I conceived it.”

“Tell me truly, I implore-- Is there-- is there balm in Gilead?--tell me--tell me, I implore!”

“I was never kinder to the old man than during the whole week before I killed him.”

“the truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong.)”

“Convinced myself, I seek not to convince.”