“I ought to be thy Adam, but I am rather the fallen angel, whom thou drivest from joy for no misdeed.”

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

Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.

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

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

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

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

The beginning is always today.

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