The modern masters promise very little

did you not call this a glorious expedition? and wherefore was it glorious? not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were brave to overcome. for this was it a glorious , for this was it an honorable undertaking

At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

I am alone and miserable. Only someone as ugly as I am could love me.

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

The moon gazed on my midnight labours, while, with unrelaxed and breathless eagerness, I pursued nature to her hiding places.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.