Oh, for the time when I shall sleep Without identity.

Be with me always - take any form - drive me mad! only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!

Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'tis all that I implore: In life and death a chainless soul, with courage to endure.

He shall never know how I love him: and that, not because he's handsome, Nelly, but because he is more myself than I am. Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

Earnsha was not to be civilized with a wish, and my young lady was no philosopher, and no paragon of patience; but both their minds tending to the same point - one loving and desiring to esteem, and the other loving and desiring to be esteemed - they contrived in the end to reach it.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

Worthless as wither'd weeds.