"A truce to philosophy! —Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread."

"I am malicious because I am miserable."

"My imagination is dead, my genius lost, my energies sleep."

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

"I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on."