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

If you will comply with my conditions, I will leave them and you at peace; but if you refuse, I will glut the maw of death, until it be satiated with the blood of your remaining friends.

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

Till society is very differently constituted, parents, I fear, will still insist on being obeyed because they will be obeyed, and constantly endeavor to settle that power on a divine right which will not bear the investigation of reason.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!