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

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

...learn from my miseries, and do not seek to increase your own.

You will rejoice to hear that no disaster has accompanied the commencement of an enterprise which you have regarded with such evil forebodings.

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.

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