Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

The agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.

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.

But success shall crown my endeavours. Wherefore not? Thus far I have gone, tracking a secure way over the pathless seas: the very stars themselves being witnesses and testimonies of my triumph. Why not still proceed over the untamed yet obedient element? What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

None but those who have experienced them can conceive of the enticements of science.