I trembled, and my heart failed within me; when, on looking up, I saw, by the light of the moon, the daemon at the casement.

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

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

I do know that for the sympathy of one living being, I would make peace with all. I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes of which you would not believe. If I cannot satisfy the one, I will indulge the other.

One as deformed and horrible as myself, could not deny herself to me. My companion must be of the same species, and have the same defects... with whom I can live in the interchange of those sympathies necessary for my being.

His conversation was marked by its happy abundance.

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