Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

For a moment my soul was elevated from its debasing and miserable fears to which these sights were the monuments and the remembrances. For an instant I dared to shake off my chains, and look around me with a free and lofty spirit; but the iron had eaten into my flesh, and I sank again, trembling and hopeless, into my miserable self.

With how many things are we on the brink of becoming acquainted, if cowardice or carelessness did not restrain our inquiries.

Accursed creator! Why did you form a monster so hideous that even you turned from me in disgust?

There is love in me the likes of which you've never seen. There is rage in me the likes of which should never escape. If I am not satisfied int he one, I will indulge the other.