"When falsehood can look so like the truth, who can assure themselves of certain happiness?"

"The deep connections of the soul are not to be broken by the accidents of life."

"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."

"My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free."

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