"When I looked around I saw and heard of none like me. Was I, then, a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned? I cannot describe to you the agony that these re…"

"What is there in our nature that is forever urging us on towards pain and misery?"

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

"I was an outcast in the world."

"I must love and be loved. I must feel that my dear and chosen friends are happier through me."