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

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?