It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.

It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.

Nature formed me fierce.

the sins of children rise up in judgment against their parents.

a weak and irresolute disposition is often more destructive than determined vice.

It is said there is no happiness, and no love to be compared to that which is felt for the first time. Most persons erroneously think so; but love like other arts requires experience, and terror and ignorance, on its first approach, prevent our feeling it as strongly as at a later period.

my mind is a world in itself, which I have peopled with my own creatures.