Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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

Nothing is more painful to the human mind than, after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul both of hope and fear.

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

But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.