Feeling without judgement is a washy draught indeed; but judgement untempered by feeling is too bitter and husky a morsel for human deglutition.

Fair as a lily, and not only the pride of life, but the desire of his eyes

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person's strength.

You ask rather too many questions. I have given you answers enough for the present: now I want to read.

My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock's sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live -- to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love -- loved am I!