“Revenge of personal wrongs is a mean passion. It is the gratification of self-love in one of its most abominable forms.”

Condemning vengeance as wounded pride seeking ignoble satisfaction · Essay, A Sixty-Drop Dose of Laudanum, Drop 18

• Truth

“Imagination is always conscious of exercising its own power.”

Distinguishing deliberate imagination from involuntary dreaming · Essay, A Sixty-Drop Dose of Laudanum, Drop 20

• Art
• Poetry

“Our first efforts, it is true, are not always our happiest. Neither are our first loves. Yet both are most dear to our recollections; for with all first things there is associated a certain mysterious magic.”

Linking first attempts and first loves through the enchantment of memory · Essay, A Sixty-Drop Dose of Laudanum, Drop 1

• Art
• Love
• Memory