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

Two persons love in one another the future good which they aid one another to unfold.

The persons whom you have idolized can never, in the end, be ungrateful, and, probably, at the time of retreat they still do justice to your heart. But, so long as you must draw persons too near you, a temporary recoil is sure to follow. It is the character striving to defend itself from a heating and suffocating action upon it.

Truth is the first of jewels.

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

The soul of the great musician can only be expressed in music.

If anything can be invented more excruciating than an English Opera, such as was the fashion at the time I was in London, I am sure no sin of mine deserves the punishment of bearing it.