"I could not understand why men who knew all about good and evil could hate and kill each other."

"The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature."

"If I have no ties and no affections, hatred and vice must be my portion."

"What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and dea…"

"It is strange, but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction."