"We are not formed for enjoyment; and, however we may be attuned to the reception of pleasurable emotion, disappointment is the never-failing pilot of our life's bark, and ruthlessly carries us on to t…"

"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"

"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand."

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."

"I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body."