"I wish that women would have power not over men, but over themselves."

"Thus strangely are our souls constructed, and by slight ligaments are we bound to prosperity and ruin."

"My imagination was always my best friend."

"One man's life or death were but a small price to pay for the acquirement of the knowledge which I sought, for the dominion I should acquire and transmit over the elemental foes of our race."

"Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge and how much happier that man is who believes his native town to be the world, than he who a…"