“Elegance is inferior to virtue.”

“Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.”

“A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.”

“Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.”

“The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.”

“Why did I not die? More miserable than man ever was before, why did I not sink into forgetfulness and rest? Death snatches away many blooming children, the only hopes of their doting parents...”

“I do not ever remember to have trembled at a tale of superstition or to have feared the apparition of a spirit. Darkness had no effect upon my fancy, and a churchyard was to me merely the re...”

“One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those...”