"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…"

"If I cannot inspire love, I will cause fear!"

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

"I am a solitary being, and I have ever been so."

"What is the world, except that which we feel? Love, and hope, and delight, or sorrow and tears; these are our lives, our realities, to which we give the names of power, possession, misfortune, and dea…"