When I was a boy, I was a bit puzzled, and hardly knew weather it was myself or the world that was curious and worth looking into. Now I know that it is myself, and stick to that.

You mightn't happen to have a piece of cheese about you, now? No? Well, many's the long night I've dreamed of cheese-toasted, mostly-and woke up again, and here I were.

I have done my fiddling so long under Vesuvius that I have almost forgotten to play, and can only wait for the eruption and think it long of coming. Literally no man has more wholly outlived life than I. And still it's good fun.

Love- what is love? A great and aching heart; Wrung hands; and silence; and a long despair

It is one thing to mortify curiosity, another to conquer it.

An aim in life is the only fortune worth finding.

One more touch of the bow, smell of the virginal Green - one more, and my bosom Feels new life with an ecstasy.