“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.”

“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...”

“None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science. In other studies you go as far as others have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in...”

“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...”