Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
A solitary being is by instinct a wanderer.
You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.
I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.
Invention consists in the capacity of seizing on the capabilities of a subject, and in the power of moulding and fashioning ideas suggested to it.