"Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change."

"I was new to sorrow, but it did not the less alarm me."

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."

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

"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, kinder, better than ourselves, do not take us in hand."