And life is thorny; and youth is vain - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation

Alone, alone, all, all alone,
Alone on a wide wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul in agony.

My next shall be a more sober & chastised Epistle — but you see I was in the humour for metaphors — and to tell thee the Truth, I have so often serious reasons to quarrel with my Inclination, that I do not chuse to contradict it for Trifles.