"I have no power to give you happiness, but I could make you an object and a cause of misery."

"I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on."

"Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it."

"Dreams are but the reflections of our waking hours."

"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"