His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

It is with considerable difficulty that I remember the original era of my being

What can stop the determined heart and resolved will of man?

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

Devil, do you dare approach me? and do you not fear the fierce vengeance of my arm wreaked on your miserable head?

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

The modern masters promise very little