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

The whole series of my life appeared to me as a dream; I sometimes doubted if indeed it were all true, for it never presented itself to my mind with the force of reality.

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

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.

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

He is dead who called me into being, and when I shall be no more the very remembrance of us both will speedily vanish.

Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.