One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

My own mind began to grow, watchful with anxoius thoughts.

When I step into the batter's box, the fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a battle between me and the pitcher. And more than anything, I want to win.

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.