"Blasted as I was, I could not bear to look on the face of man."

"Did God create man, merely in the end to become dead earth in the midst of healthful vegetating nature?"

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

"Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye."

"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"