I only go out to get me a fresh appetite for being alone.

---

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

---

The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the Music breathing from her face, The heart whose softness harmonised the whole — And, oh! that eye was in itself a Soul!

---

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken.

---

What's drinking? A mere pause from thinking!

---

Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

---

'Tis solitude should teach us how to die; It hath no flatterers; vanity can give, No hollow aid; alone - man with God must strive.

---

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

---

Think not I am what I appear.

---

The premises are so delightfully extensive, that two people might live together without ever seeing, hearing or meeting.

---