With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.