Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.

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

The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature.

Sorrow only increased with knowledge.

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

If the study to which you apply yourself has a tendency to weaken your affections and to destroy your taste for those simple pleasures in which no alloy can possibly mix, then that study is certainly unlawful, that is to say, not befitting the human mind.

Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.