My father was not scientific, and I was left to struggle with a child's blindness, added to a student's thirst for knowledge.

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

Even where the affections are not strongly moved by any superior excellence, the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain. They know our infantine dispositions, which, however they may be afterwards modified, are never eradicated; and they can judge of our actions with more certain conclusions as to the integrity of our motives.

When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?

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

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

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil. Yet even that enemy of God and man had friends and associates in his desolation; I am alone.