The greater amount of truth is impulsively uttered; thus the greater amount is spoken, not written.
As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.
A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.
Blood was its Avatar and its seal.
There are some secrets which do not permit themselves to be told.
I found him well educated, with unusual powers of mind, but infected with misanthropy, and subject to perverse moods of alternate enthusiasm and melancholy.