I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
You are afraid of me, because I talk like a sphinx.
Propensities and principles must be reconciled by some means.
I only want an easy mind, sir; not crushed by crowded obligations.
Self abandoned, relaxed and effortless, I seemed to have laid me down in the dried-up bed of a great river; I heard a flood loosened in remote mountains, I felt the torrent come; to rise I had no will, to flee I had no strength.
Your will shall decide your destiny.
But afterwards, is there nothing more for me in life – no true home – nothing to be dearer to me than myself?
What delusion has come over me? What sweet madness has seized me?
Some of the best people that ever lived have been as destitute as I am; and if you are a Christian, you ought not to consider poverty a crime.
I see at intervals the glance of a curious sort of bird through the close set bars of a cage: a vivid, restless, resolute captive is there; were it but free, it would soar cloud-high.
My love has placed her little hand With noble faith in mine, And vowed that wedlock’s sacred band Our nature shall entwine. My love has sworn, with sealing kiss, With me to live – to die; I have at last my nameless bliss: As I love – loved am I!
Silence is of different kinds, and breathes different meanings.
We should acknowledge God merciful, but not always for us comprehensible.
Great pains were taken to hide chains with flowers.
Say whatever your memory suggests is true; but add nothing and exaggerate nothing.
I think you will learn to be natural with me, as I find it impossible to be conventional with you.
And with that answer, he left me. I would much rather he had knocked me down.
I soon forgot storm in music.
Beauty is in the eye of the gazer.
A new chapter in a novel is something like a new scene in a play;.