"All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction."

"Borders are scratched across the hearts of men By strangers with a calm, judicial pen, And when the borders bleed we watch with dread The lines of ink along the map turn red."

"For every five well-adjusted and smoothly functioning Americans, there are two who never had the chance to discover themselves. It may well be because they have never been alone with themselves."

"The curse of the romantic is a greed for dreams, an intensity of expectation that, in the end, diminishes the reality."

"Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful; and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm."

"It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate."

"Who breathes, must suffer, and who thinks, must mourn; And he alone is bless'd, who ne'er was born."

"I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered."