Who said “Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays…”?

“Where there is sorrow there is holy ground.”

“The pleasure that is in sorrow is sweeter than the pleasure of pleasure itself.”

“The path of sorrow, and that path alone, Leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.”

“There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow, but there is something in it so like virtue, that he who is wholly without it cannot be loved.”

“...some say that Happiness is not Good for Mortals & they ought to be answerd that Sorrow is not fit for Immortals & is utterly useless to any one a blight never does good to a tree & if a blight kill not a tree but it still bear fruit let none say that the fruit was in consequence of the blight.”

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.”

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.”

“Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.”

“It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.”

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.”

“Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.”