Magic is believing in yourself, if you can do that, you can make anything happen.

If nature is your teacher, your soul will awaken.

Ah! my poor brain is racked and crazed, My spirit and senses amazed!

I have learned much from disease which life could have never taught me anywhere else.

Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.

Whatever we think out, whatever we take in hand to do, should be perfectly and finally finished, that the world, if it must alter, will only have to spoil it; we have then nothing to do but unite the severed, to recollect and restore the dismembered.

I was oppressed with the sensations I then felt; I sunk under the weight of them.