Even the eternal skies weep, I thought; is there any shame then, that mortal man should spend himself in tears?

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

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

Oh! Stars and clouds and winds, ye are all about to mock me; if ye really pity me, crush sensation and memory; let me become as nought; but if not, depart, depart, and leave me in darkness.

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

Her countenance was all expression; her eyes were not dark but impenetrably deep; you seemed to discover space after space in their intellectual glance.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?