"If you press me to say why I loved him, I can say no more than because he was he, and I was I."

"She shone for me like the Evening Star. I loved her dearly — but at a distance."

"It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man, so weak, but it mates, and masters…"

"I love and reverence the Word, the bearer of the spirit, the tool and gleaming ploughshare of progress."

"His Majesty , sent for me. After the usual courtesies and examination of the pictures which I have brought,…"

"But your Squabbles about a Bishop I wish to see speedily ended. ... Each Party abuses the other, the Profan…"

"It was that pathetic feeling of not having a hot girlfriend on my arm while some other boys in the theatre …"