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

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

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.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

The modern masters promise very little

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.