I Want To Be A Free Rover

I Wrote Because I Could Not Help It. There Was Something That I Wanted To Say, And I Said It: That Was All. The Fame And The Money And The Usefulness Might Or Might Not Follow. It Was Not By My Endeavor If They Did.

If I Believed That The Choice Lay Between A Sacrifice Of The Completest Order Of Biography And That Of The Inviolability Of Private Epistolary Correspondence, I Could Not Hesitate For A Moment. I Would Keep The Old And Precious Privacy,-the Inestimable Right Of Every One Who Has A Friend And Can Write To Him, - I Would Keep Our Written Confidence From Being Made Biographical Material, As Anxiously As I Would Keep Our Spoken Conversation From Being Noted Down For The Good Of Society.

I Have No Sympathy For Those Who, Under Any Pressure Of Circumstances, Sacrifice Their Heart's-love For Legal Prostitution.

There Is No Death To Those Who Perfectly Love-only Disappearance, Which In Time May Be Borne.

The Lesson Taught Us By These Kindly Commentators On My Present Experience Is That Dogmatic Faith Compels The Best Minds And Hearts To Narrowness And Insolence.