The generative energy, which, when we are loose, dissipates and makes us unclean, when we are continent invigorates and inspires us. Chastity is the flowering of man; and what are called Genius, Heroism, Holiness, and the like, are but various fruits which succeed it.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

I never read a novel, they have so little real life and thought in them.

This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

You must get your living by loving. But as it is said of the merchants that ninety-seven in a hundred fail, so the life of men generally, tried by this standard, is a failure, and bankruptcy may be surely prophesied.

I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.

What a singular fact for an angel visitant to this earth to carry back in his note-book, that men were forbidden to expose their bodies under the severest penalties!