And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.

how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling

He’s more myself than I am

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.

If he loved with all the powers of his puny being, he couldn't love as much in eighty years as I could in a day.

If you ever looked at me once with what I know is in you, I'd be your slave.

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

The clock strikes off the hollow half-hours of all the life that is left to you, one by one.

If I had caused the cloud, it was my duty to make an effort to dispel it.

She burned too bright for this world.

I've dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.

Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.

If I could I would always work in silence and obscurity, and let my efforts be known by their results.

Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.

Honest people don't hide their deeds.

Whatever our souls are made of, his and mine are the same.

I will walk where my own nature would be leading.

The trouble is not that I am single and likely to stay single, but that I am lonely and likely to stay lonely.