1. “A sensible man ought to find sufficient company in himself.”
2. “I see heaven’s glories shine and faith shines equal.”
3. “The tyrant grinds down his slaves ad they don’t turn against him, they crush those beneath them.”
4. “I am now quite cured of seeking pleasure in society, be it country or town.”
5. “Time brought resignation and a melancholy sweeter than common joy.”
6. “I cannot live without my life! I cannot live without my soul!”
7. “If all else perished, and he remained, I should still continue to be; and if all else remained, and he were annihilated, the universe would turn to a mighty stranger.”
8. “Treachery and violence are pears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies.”
9. “Honest people don’t hide their deeds.”
10. “Earth reserves no blessing For the unblessed of Heaven!”
11. “I’ve dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after.”
12. “It is strange people should be so greedy, when they are alone in the world.”
13. “A person who has not done one half his day’s work by ten o’ clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.”
14. “Thoughts are tyrants that return again and again to torment us.”
15. “It was not the thorn bending to the honeysuckles, but the honeysuckles embracing the thorn.”
16. “I gave him my heart, and he took and pinched it to death; and flung it back to me.”
17. “It is for God to punish wicked people; we should learn to forgive.”
18. “They forgot everything the minute they were together again.”
19. “And from the midst of cheerless gloom I passed to bright unclouded day.”
20. “Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.”
21. “We must be for ourselves in he long run: the mild and generous are only more justly selfish than the domineering.”
22. “Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.”
23. “Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree.”
24. “You know that I could as soon forget you as my existence!”
25. “You have been compelled to cultivate your reflective faculties, for want of occasions for frittering your life away in silly trifles.”
26. “A good heart will help you to a bonny face, my lad and a bad one will turn the bonniest into something worse than ugly.”
27. “I have to remind myself to breathe — almost to remind my heart to beat!”
28. “I will walk where my own nature would be leading.”
29. “Terror made be cruel.”
30. “I take so little interest in my daily life, that I hardly remember to eat and drink.”
