"I am a creature of fine sensations, but I am also a creature of terrible imperfections."

"Anguish and despair had penetrated into the core of my heart; I bore a hell within me, which nothing could extinguish."

"I had worked hard for nearly two years, for the sole purpose of infusing life into an inanimate body."

"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 have no power to give you happiness, but I could make you an object and a cause of misery."