“love is a sickness full of woes, All remedies refusing”

“O blessed Letters, that combine in oneAll ages past, and make one live with all:By you we doe conferre with who are gone,And the dead-living unto councell call:By you th' unborne shall have communionOf what we feele, and what doth us befall.”

“Property, marriage, the law; as the bed to the river, so rule and convention to the instinct; and woe to him who tampers with the banks while the flood is flowing.”

“a hospital is no place to be sick”

“Human history is full of great men, great women, individuals, with the will for power - all of them with governesses like her.”

“I knew myself to be in need of not one solution of any caliber, but of an endless string of short-term remedies. Just as soon as I'd become acquainted with anything, it just as quickly became useless to me. ”

“To live is like to love--all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it”