I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly.

Live, and be happy, and make others so.

But her's was the misery of innocence, which, like a cloud that passes over the fair moon, for a while hides, but cannot tarnish its brightness.

It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn.

Women are told from their infancy, and taught by the example of their mothers, that a little knowledge of human weakness, justly termed cunning, softness of temper, outward obedience and a scrupulous attention to a puerile kind of propriety, will obtain for them the protection of man.

What are we, the inhabitants of this globe, least among the many that people infinite space? Our minds embrace infinity; the visible mechanism of our being is subject to merest accident.

the sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time.