His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

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.

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

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of a void, but out of chaos; the materials must in the first place be afforded; it can give form to dark, shapeless substances, but cannot bring into being the substance itself.

It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another.