“Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it--else it is none.”

“Your goodness must have some edge to it -- else it is none.”

“Many lovers have come and goneSome I miss and some I don't.Some were handsome, none were plain; My good fortune, I suppose.”

“Aside from all else, there is some truth in that; clocks indeed must have their sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity?”

“After experience had taught me that all the usual surroundings of social life are vain and futile; seeing that none of the objects of my fears contained in themselves anything either good or bad, except in so far as the mind is affected by them, I finally resolved to inquire whether there might be some real good having power to communicate itself, which would affect the mind singly, to the exclusion of all else: whether, in fact, there might be anything of which the discovery and attainment would enable me to enjoy continuous, supreme, and unending happiness.”

“Of all things difficult to rule, none were more so than my will and affections.”