“...I hid myself between two leaves of sorrel, and there discharged the necessities of nature.”
“I read the tea leaves as if they were wordsleft over from a conversation between two cups.”
“Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.”
“…I hate myself for not being able to go downstairs naturally and seek comfort in numbers. I hate myself for having to sit here and be torn between I know not what within me.”
“I barely noticed loneliness anymore; it was my normal condition, by necessity if not by nature.”
“The parent who sedulously endeavors to form the heart and enlarge the understanding of his child has given that dignity to the discharge of a duty, common to the whole animal world, that only reason can give. This is the parental affection of humanity, and leaves instinctive natural affection far behind.”