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Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearances

“I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute.

Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.

I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me

The greatest pleasure I know is to do something by stealth and have it found out by accident