You seek for knowledge and wisdom as I once did; and I ardently hope that the gratification of your wishes may not be a serpent to sting you, as mine has been.

Teach him to think for himself? Oh, my God, teach him rather to think like other people!

Ennui, the demon, waited at the threshold of his noiseless refuge, and drove away the stirring hopes and enlivening expectations, which form the better part of life.

I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel.

These wonderful narrations inspired me with strange feelings. Was man, indeed, at once so powerful, so virtuous, and magnificent, yet so vicious and base? He appeared at one time a mere scion of the evil principle and at another as all that can be conceived of noble and godlike.

I, a miserable wretch, haunted by a curse that shut up every avenue to enjoyment.

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.