“Shall we never never get rid of this Past? ... It lies upon the Present like a giant's dead body.”

“This shall be the last of my benevolent follies, and I will never be kind to anybody again as long as I live.”

“ that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it. ”

“In our nature, however, there is a provision, alike marvelous and merciful, that the sufferer should never know the intensity of what he endures by its present torture, but chiefly by the pang that rankles after it.”

“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something long ago tried and abandoned, but which we now find etherealized, refined, and perfected to its ideal. The past is but a coarse and sensual prophecy of the present and the future.”

“A dead man sits on all our judgment seats; and living judges do but search out and repeat his decisions. We read in dead men's books! We laugh a dead men's jokes, and cry at dead men's pathos!”

“Shall we not spend our immortal life together? Surely, surely, we have ransomed one another, with all this woe!”