I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my own sake and for nothing else.

Health is the greatest of blessings - with health and hope we should be content to live.

Nothing ever becomes real till experienced – even a proverb is no proverb until your life has illustrated it

The genius of Shakespeare was an innate university.

The Public - a thing I cannot help looking upon as an enemy, and which I cannot address without feelings of hostility.

How sad it is when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in things attainable that it may not have leisure to go mad after things that are not.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.