"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity o…"

"My generous throat has shared among the fishes."

"Why does a lady in tight corsets never need comfort? Because she's already so laced. — solaced."

"I am constitutionally nervous—high-strung. I have a morbid dread of solitude."

"The truth is, I am heartily sick of this life & of the nineteenth century in general. (I am convinced that every thing is going wrong)."