"Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?"

"I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick to come to the top."

"I feel my fate to be a most unhappy one."

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination."

"If a sparrow come before my window, I take part in its existence and pick about the gravel with it."