"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…"

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

"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!"

"Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful."

"I knew the labyrinthine intrigue of his marriage was of a nature to present us with difficulties, but I was assured of the naturalness of our joining. I was sixteen and the world was suddenly entirely…"