Life, although it may only be an accumulation of anguish, is dear to me, and I will defend it.
Beware; for I am fearless, and therefore powerful.
No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.
My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.
I do not wish women to have power over men; but over themselves.
Elegance is inferior to virtue.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Invention, it must be humbly admitted, does not consist in creating out of void, but out of chaos.
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 agony of my feelings allowed me no respite; no incident occurred from which my rage and misery could not extract its food.