I intend to put up with nothing that I can put down.
I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.
I have great faith in fools: self-confidence my friends will call it.
I felt that I breathed an atmosphere of sorrow.
I dread the events of the future, not in themselves but in their results.
I continued, as was my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not perceive that my smile now was at the thought of his immolation.
I blush, I burn, I shudder, while I pen the damnable atrocity.
I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart – one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
I am come of a race noted for vigor of fancy and ardor of passion.
Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such?
For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams.
Every moment of the night, forever changing places and they put out the star-light with the breath from their pale faces.
