"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"
"If I do not write to empty my mind, I go mad."
"The great object of life is sensation- to feel that we exist, even though in pain."
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves."
"I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned."
"And thus the heart will break, yet brokenly live on."