As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

I have made no money. I am as poor now as ever I was in my life - except in hope, which is by no means bankable.

By undue profundity we perplex and enfeeble thought; and it is possible to make even Venus herself vanish from the firmament by a scrutiny too sustained, too concentrated, or too direct.

Leave my loneliness unbroken

I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.

I have before suggested that a genuine blackguard is never without a pocket-handkerchief.

Yes I now feel that it was then on that evening of sweet dreams- that the very first dawn of human love burst upon the icy night of my spirit. Since that period I have never seen nor heard your name without a shiver half of delight half of anxiety.