For with G. D., to be absent from the body is sometimes (not to speak profanely) to be present with the Lord. - Charles Lamb

For God's sake (I never was more serious), don't make me ridiculous any more by terming me gentle-hearted in print.

I am sentimentally disposed to harmony but organically incapable of tune.

I must confess that I dedicate no inconsiderable portion of my time to other people's thoughts. I dream away my life in others' speculations. I love to lose myself in other men's minds. When I am not walking, I am reading. I cannot sit and think. Books think for me.