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

"I was benevolent and good; misery made me a fiend. Make me happy, and I again shall be virtuous."

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

"It is strange, but true; for truth is always strange, stranger than fiction."

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