If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.

However , it’s over, and I’ll take no revenge on his folly – I can afford to suffer anything, hereafter! Should the meanest thing alive slap me on the cheek, I’d not only turn the other, but I’d ask pardon for provoking it – and, as proof, I’ll go make my peace with Edgar instantly – Good night – I’m an angel!

Riches I hold in light esteem, And love I laugh to scorn, And lust of fame was but a dream That vanished with the morn. And if I pray, the only prayer That moves my lips for me Is, 'Leave the heart that now I bear, And give me liberty!' Yes, as my swift days near their goal, 'Tis all that I implore - In life and death, a chainless soul, With courage to endure.

I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

It is astonishing how sociable I feel myself compared with him.

Hereafter she is only my sister in name; not because I disown her, but because she has disowned me.