“The world was to me a secret which I desired to divine.”

Learn from me, if not by my precepts, at least by my example, how dangerous is the acquirement of knowledge.

Nothing is so painful to the human mind as a great and sudden change.

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world.

The beginning is always today.

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'