These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

My education was neglected, yet I was passionately fond of reading.

The modern masters promise very little

Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin.

...we are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves - such a friend ought to be - do not lend his aid to perfectionate our weak and faulty natures.

My candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open.

All judges had rather that ten innocent should suffer than that one guilty should escape.