What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet. It was already one in the morning; the rain pattered dismally against the panes, and my candle was nearly burnt out, when, by the glimmer of the half-extinguished light, I saw the dull yellow eye of the creature open; it breathed hard, and a convulsive motion agitated its limbs.

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

I leave a sad and bitter world; and if you remember me, and think of me as of one unjustly condemned, I am resigned to the fate awaiting me.

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

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