I Must Choose Between Despair And Energy──i

O For A Life Of Sensations Rather Than Of Thoughts!

What Is There In Thee, Moon! That Thou Should'st Move My Heart So Potently?

Knowledge Enormous Makes A God Of Me.

I Am Certain Of Nothing But The Holiness Of The Heart's Affections, And The Truth Of Imagination.

I Am Certain I Have Not A Right Feeling Towards Women -- At This Moment I Am Striving To Be Just To Them, But I Cannot. Is It Because They Fall So Far Beneath My Boyish Imagination? When I Was A Schoolboy I Thought A Fair Woman A Pure Goddess; My Mind Was A Soft Nest In Which Some One Of Them Slept, Though She Knew It Not.