Satan has his companions, fellow-devils, to admire and encourage him; but I am solitary and detested.

From my infancy I was imbued with high hopes and a lofty ambition.

Heavy misfortunes have befallen us, but let us only cling closer to what remains, and transfer our love for those whom we have lost to those who yet live. Our circle will be small, but bound close by the ties of affection and mutual misfortune. And when time shall have softened your despair, new and dear objects of care will be born to replace those of whom we have been so cruelly deprived.

Once a king ... it was impossible, without risk of life, to sink to a private station.

I cherished hope, it is true, but it vanished when my person reflected . . .

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.

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.