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

"I felt convinced that however it might have been in former times, in the present stage of the world, no man's faculties could be developed, no man's moral principle be enlarged and liberal, without an…"

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

"A human being in perfection ought always to preserve a calm and peaceful mind, and never to allow passion or transitory desire to disturb his tranquillity. I do not think that the pursuit of knowledge…"

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