I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I were dissolving... I have been astonished that Men could die Martyrs for religion - I have shudder'd at it - I shudder no more - I could be martyr'd for my Religion - Love is my religion - I could die for that - I could die for you. My creed is Love and you are its only tenet - You have ravish'd me away by a Power I cannot resist.

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish popularity.

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

I have good reason to be content, for thank God I can read and perhaps understand Shakespeare to his depths.

A man should have the fine point of his soul taken off to become fit for this world.

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

We have woven a web, you and I, attached to this world but a separate world of our own invention.