He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought

I beheld the wretch-the miserable monster whom I had created.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

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

Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth.

She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked with ecstasy of our future prospects. The first of those sorrows which are sent to wean us from the earth had visited her, and its dimming influence quenched her dearest smiles.