I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.

And so, being young and dipt in folly, I fell in love with melancholy.

To see distinctly the machinery--the wheels and pinions--of any work of Art is, unquestionably, of itself, a pleasure, but one which we are able to enjoy only just in proportion as we do not enjoy the legitimate effect designed by the artist.

There are chords in the hearts of the most reckless which cannot be touched without emotion.

And all my days are trances, And all my nightly dreams Are where thy dark eye glances, And where thy footstep gleams-- In what ethereal dances, By what eternal streams!

Where the good and the bad and the worst and the best have gone to their eternal rest.

In efforts to soar above our nature, we invariably fall below it.