It may...be judged indecent in me to come forward on this occasion; but when I see a fellow-creature about to perish through the cowardice of her pretended friends, I wish to be allowed to speak, that I may say what I know of her character.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.

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.

Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!

I see by your eagerness, and the wonder and hope which your eyes express, my friend, that you expect to be in formed of the secret with which I am acquainted. That cannot be.

I required kindness and sympathy, but I did not believe myself utterly unworthy of it.

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