"White paper - wilt thou be my confident? I will trust thee fully, for none shall see what I write."

"Truly disappointment is the guardian deity of human life; she sits at the threshold of unborn time, and marshals the events as they come forth."

"To examine the causes of life, we must first have recourse to death."

"I was never so mad as to believe that I could create a being."

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