"My greatest pleasure was the enjoyment of a serene sky amidst these verdant woods: yet I loved all the changes of Nat…"

"The last man! Yes I may well describe that solitary being's feelings, feeling myself as the last relic of a beloved r…"

"At the age of twenty six I am in the condition of an aged person — all my old friends are gone ... & my heart fails w…"

"One thing I will add: if I have ever found kindness, it has not been from Liberals; to disengage myself from them was…"

"I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize t…"

"There is something at work in my soul which I do not understand. I am practically industrious — painstaking, a workma…"

"We are unfashioned creatures, but half made up, if one wiser, better, dearer than ourselves — such a friend ought to …"

"So much has been done, exclaimed the soul of Frankenstein — more, far more, will I achieve; treading in the steps alr…"

"No one can conceive the variety of feelings which bore me onwards, like a hurricane, in the first enthusiasm of succe…"

"The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. I had worked hard for nearly t…"