One can begin so many things with a new person! - even begin to be a better man.

My books don't seem to belong to me after I have once written them; and I find myself delivering opinions about them as if I had nothing to do with them.

It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.

No anguish I have had to bear on your account has been too heavy a price to pay for the new life into which I have entered in loving you.

We get a deal o' useless things about us, only because we've got the money to spend.

'Character," says Novalis, in one of his questionable aphorisms - character is destiny'.

Awful Night! Ancestral mystery of mysteries.