1. “Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”
2. “Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.”
3. “I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town. A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
4. “If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.”
5. “I see heaven's glories shine and faith shines equal...”
6. “I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas: they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”
7. “Love is like the wild rose-briar;
Friendship like the holly-tree.
The holly is dark when the rose-
briar blooms, But which
will bloom most constantly?”
8. “Oh! dreadful is the check - intense the agony - / When the ear begins to hear, and the eye begins to see; / When the pulse begins to throb, the brain to think again; / The soul to feel the flesh, and the flesh to feel the chain.”
9. “Once drinking deep of that divinest anguish,/ How could I seek the empty world again?”
10. ““Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
11. “There is not room for Death, / Nor atom that his might could render void: / Thou - Thou art Being and Breath, / And what Thou art may never be destroyed.”
12. “Though earth and man were gone,
And suns and universes ceased to be,
And Thou were left alone,
Every existence would exist in Thee.”
13. “Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.”
14. “What I love shall come like visitant of air,
Safe in secret power from lurking human snare;
What loves me, no word of mine shall e’er betray,
Though for faith unstained my life must forfeit pay.”
