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

Alas! when passion is both meek and wild!

Is there another Life? Shall I awake and find all this a dream? There must be we cannot be created for this sort of suffering.

To stay youthful, stay useful.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart’s affections and the truth of the Imagination – What the imagination seizes as Beauty must be truth – whether it existed before or not – for I have the same Idea of all our Passions as of Love they are all in their sublime, creative of essential Beauty . . .

I will imagine you Venus tonight and pray, pray, pray to your star like a Heathen.

The world is too brutal for me-I am glad there is such a thing as the grave-I am sure I shall never have any rest till I get there.