Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.

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

I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other.

At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person - all my old friends are gone... & my heart fails when I think by how few ties I hold to the world.

I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

The very winds whispered in soothing accents, and maternal Nature bade me weep no more.

If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!