"Sorrow only increased with knowledge."

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

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

"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."

"I was born with a love for the marvellous."