"My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nature; and rain, and storm, and the beautiful clouds of heaven brought their delights…"

"The sentiment of immediate loss in some sort decayed, while that of utter, irremediable loneliness grew on me with time."

"It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another."

"What may not be expected in a country of eternal light?"

"I, the miserable and the abandoned, am an abortion, to be spurned at, and kicked, and trampled on."