...you have not only a very large portion of my affection and esteem, but all that I am capable of feeling...
Oh! my dearest love, why are our pleasures so short and so interrupted? How long is this to last? Know you, my best Mary, that I feel myself, in your absence, almost degraded to the level of the vulgar and impure. I feel their vacant, stiff eyeballs ...
...you influenced me, in a way in which no one else did.
...your soul can never be long going to the fixed stars, where I intend to settle; or else you may find me in the milky way.
To sit down so often with nothing to say,-to say something so often, almost without consciousness of saying and without any remembrance or having said,-is a power of which I will not violate my modesty by boasting; but I do not believe everyone has i...
