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

...once I falsely hoped to meet the beings who, pardoning my outward form, would love me for the excellent qualities which I was capable of unfolding.

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

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

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.

How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery!