“No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of success.”

The beginning is always today.

Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.

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

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

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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.