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I feel monotony and death to be almost the same.

The human heart has hidden treasures, In secret kept, in silence sealed; The thoughts, the hopes, the dreams, the pleasures, Whose charms were broken if revealed.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

The soul, fortunately, has an interpreter – often an unconscious, but still a truthful interpreter – in the eye.

I try to avoid looking forward or backward, and try to keep looking upward.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

If you are cast in a different mould to the majority, it is no merit of yours: Nature did it.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. I am not mad.

Who has words at the right moment?

Give him enough rope and he will hang himself.