It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

I am above the weakness of seeking to establish a sequence of cause and effect, between the disaster and the atrocity.

A mystery, and a dream, should my early life seem.

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

Even in the grave, all is not lost.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Music, when combined with a pleasurable idea, is poetry; music, without the idea, is simply music; the idea, without the music, is prose, from its very definitiveness.