Union is only possible to those who are units. To be fit for relations in time, souls, whether of man or woman, must be able to do without them in the spirit.

Spirits that have once been sincerely united and tended together a sacred flame, never become entirely stranger to one another's life.

I am 'too fiery'... yet I wish to be seen as I am and I would lose all rather than soften away anything.

There is some danger lest there be no real religion in the heart which craves too much daily sympathy.

I find no intellect comparable to my own

A man who means to think and write a great deal must, after six and twenty, learn to read with his fingers.

If any individual live too much in relations, so that he becomes a stranger to the resources of his own nature, he falls, after a while, into a distraction, or imbecility, from which he can only be cured by a time of isolation, which gives the renovating fountains time to rise up.