"The beginning is always today."

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

"When I reflected on the work I had completed, no less than on the failure of my hopes, I was filled with a bitter anguish."

"Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos."

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