"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more"
"We are all the fools of time and terror: DaysSteal on us and steal from us; yet we live,Loathing our life, and dreading still to die."
"The bright sun was extinguish'd, and the starsDid wander darkling in the eternal space."
"If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad."
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"I awoke one morning to find myself famous."