"Oh you people who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause which makes me seem so to you. From childhood on, my heart …"

"Oh continue to love me–never misjudge the most faithful heart of your beloved. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours."

"I have never thought of writing for renown and glory. What I have in my heart must out; that is why I write."

"I wish I had been born a century later."

"The kingdom of heaven is within us."