Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?

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 required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we were.

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

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

But I am a blasted tree; the bolt has entered my soul; and I felt then that I should survive to exhibit what I shall soon cease to be - a miserable spectacle of wrecked humanity, pitiable to others and intolerable to myself.