Happiness is in its highest degree the sister of goodness.

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

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 was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

But soon, I shall die, and what I now feel be no longer felt. Soon these burning miseries will be extinct.

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.