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

My spirit will sleep in peace; or if it thinks, it will not surely think thus. Farewell.

A mind of moderate capacity which closely pursues one study must infallibly arrive at great proficiency in that study.

The world was to me a secret which I desired to devine.

How dreadful it is, to emerge from the oblivion of slumber, and to receive as a good morrow the mute wailing of one's own hapless heart - to return from the land of deceptive dreams to the heavy knowledge of unchanged disaster!

The guilty are allowed, by human laws, bloody as they are, to speak in their own defence before they are condemned.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.