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

But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

Allow me now to return to the cottagers, whose story excited in me such various feelings of indignation, delight, and wonder, but which all terminated in additional love and reverence for my protectors (for so I loved, in an innocent, half painful self-deceit, to call them).

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

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

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?