All men hate the wretched; how, then, must I be hated, who am miserable beyond all living things! Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou are bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.

Live, and be happy, and make others so.

Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace.

I also became a poet, and for one year lived in a Paradise of my own creation; I imagined that I also might obtain a niche in the temple where the names of Homer and Shakespeare are consecrated.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.