"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…"

"What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?"

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who a…"

"I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me."

"I was born with a love for the marvellous."