I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting. |
I am always most religious upon a sunshiny day... |
I am as comfortless as a pilgrim with peas in his shoes -- and as cold as Charity, Chastity or any other Virtue. |
I am never long, even in the society of her I love, without yearning for the company of my lamp and my library |
I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us. |
I am sure of nothing so little as my own intentions. |
I am the very slave of circumstance / And impulse - borne away with every breath! |
I awoke one morning and found myself famous. |
I by no means rank poetry high in the scale of intelligence -this may look like affectation but it is my real opinion. It is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake. |
I cannot describe to you the despairing sensation of trying to do something for a man who seems incapable or unwilling to do anything further for himself |
I cannot help thinking that the menace of Hell makes as many devils as the severe penal codes of inhuman humanity make villains. |
I die, - but first I have possessed, / And come what may, I have been blessed. |
I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual. |
I do not believe in revealed religion - I will have nothing to do with your immortality; we are miserable enough in this life, without speculating on another |
I for one venerate a petticoat. |