"Ultimately the bond of all companionship, whether in marriage or in friendship, is conversation." -If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than it was because he was he and I was I.

The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

It is a sign of contraction of the mind when it is content, or of weariness.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Every man has within himself the entire human condition

I do not correct my first imaginings by my second--well, yes, perhaps a word or so, but only to vary, not to delete. I want to represent the course of my humors and I want people to see each part at its birth.