“I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.”

“We live in an age that reads too much to be wise, and that thinks too much to be beautiful.”

“The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.”

“I would merely beg you not to be too much bowed down by grief. What seem to us bitter trails are often blessings in disguise.”

“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”

“There was so much in you that charmed me that I felt I must tell you something about yourself. I thought how tragic it would be if you were wasted.”

“I don't know that women are always rewarded for being charming. I think they are usually punished for it!”