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.

He was soon borne away by the waves and lost in darkness and distance.

Everything must have a beginning ... and that beginning must be linked to something that went before.

I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I shall again be virtuous.

I saw no cause for their unhappiness, but I was deeply affected by it. If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being, should be wretched.

Seek happiness in tranquility and avoid ambition even if it be only the apparently innocent one of distinguishing yourself in science and discoveries.

Supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavor to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.