That man is not truly brave who is afraid either to seem or to be, when it suits him, a coward.

Yet we met; and fate bound us together at the alter,and I never spoke of passion nor thought of love. She, however shunned society, and, attaching herself to me alone rendered me happy. It is a happiness to wonder; it is a happiness to dream.

Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear.

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

The analytical power should not be confounded with simple ingenuity; for while the analyst is necessarily ingenious, the ingenious man is often remarkably incapable of analysis.

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.

Books, indeed, were his sole luxuries