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.

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 soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

I saw -- with shut eyes, but acute mental vision -- I saw the pale student of unhallowed arts kneeling beside the thing he had put together. I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half-vital motion.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

The modern masters promise very little

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