"What does it avail that I am in the midst of a garden, if the flowers bloom not for me?"

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

"A truce to philosophy! —Life is before me, and I rush into possession. Hope, glory, love, and blameless ambition are my guides, and my soul knows no dread."

"We never do what we wish when we wish it, and when we desire a thing earnestly, and it does arrive, that or we are changed, so that we slide from the summit of our wishes and find ourselves where we w…"

"The beginning is always today."