“the religion of personal fear remains nearly at the level of the savage.”

“I’ve always felt that your belongings have never been on a level with you.”

“How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?”

“Fear was stronger than the calculation of probabilities.”

“It will always remain true that if we had been greater, circumstance would have been less strong against us.”

“There is no feeling, except the extremes of fear and grief, that does not find relief in music.”

“There are characters which are continually creating collisions and nodes for themselves in dramas which nobody is prepared to act with them. Their susceptibilities will clash against objects that remain innocently quiet.”