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

"The deep connections of the soul are not to be broken by the accidents of life."

"I have no power to give you happiness, but I could make you an object and a cause of misery."

"Let us live for each other and for happiness; let us seek peace in our dear home, near the inland murmur of streams, and the gracious waving of trees, the beauteous vesture of earth, and sublime pagea…"

"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…"