“I account this body nothing but a close prison to my soul; and the earth a larger prison to my body. I may not break prison till I be loosed by death; but I will leave it, not unwillingly,when I am loosed. ”

“If I maintain my silence about my secret it is my prisoner...if I let it slip from my tongue, I am ITS prisoner.”

“I let him run on, this papier-mache Mephistopheles, and it seemed to me that if I tried I could poke my forefinger through him, and would find nothing inside but a little loose dirt, maybe.”

“My life is a discipline, a prison: I live for my own work, without which I am nothing.”

“I am happy in my prison of passion”

“A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.”

“Although I am able to walk about freely, I am a prisoner in my skin.”