Nervous alarms should always be communicated, that they may be dissipated.

I stood lonely enough, but to that feeling of isolation I was accustomed: it did not oppress me much.

I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

We know that God is everywhere; but certainly we feel His presence most when His works are on the grandest scale spread before us; and it is in the unclouded night-sky, where His worlds wheel their silent course, that we read clearest His infinitude, His omnipotence, His omnipresence.

You, Jane, I must have you for my own--entirely my own.

I am no bird; and no net ensnares me; I am a free human being with an independent will.

A waft of wind came sweeping down the laurel-walk, and trembled through the boughs of the chestnut: it wandered away-away-to an indefinite distance-it died. The nightingale's song was then the only voice of the hour: in listening to it, I again wept.