A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

In my joy I thrust my hand into the live embers, but quickly drew it out with a cry of pain. How strange, I thought that the same cause should produce such opposite effects.

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, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

Live, and be happy, and make others so.