Elegance Is Inferior To Virtue.

Supremely Frightful Would Be The Effect Of Any Human Endeavor To Mock The Stupendous Mechanism Of The Creator Of The World.

The Different Accidents Of Life Are Not So Changeable As The Feelings Of Human Nature.

Curiosity, Earnest Research To Learn The Hidden Laws Of Nature, Gladness Akin To Rapture, As They Unfolded To Me, Are Among The Earliest Sensations I Can Remember.

I Required Kindness And Sympathy, But I Did Not Believe Myself Utterly Unworthy Of It.

The Agony Of My Feelings Allowed Me No Respite; No Incident Occurred From Which My Rage And Misery Could Not Extract Its Food.