In the deepest slumber-no! In delirium-no! In a swoon-no! In death-no! even in the grave all is not lost.

A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, must not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries

In the marginalia ... we talk only to ourselves; we therefore talk freshly - boldly - originally - with abandonment - without conceit.

The pioneers and missionaries of religion have been the real cause of more trouble and war than all other classes of mankind.

I seemed to be upon the verge of comprehension, without the power to comprehend as men, at time, find themselves upon the brink of rememberance, without being able, in the end, to remember.

I fell in love with melancholy