"Nothing is more painful to the human mind than after the feelings have been worked up by a quick succession of events, the dead calmness of inaction and certainty which follows and deprives the soul b…"

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

"My dreams were at first replete with the terrible circumstances of my creation and murder."

"The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil."

"It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason."