My dreams were at once more fantastic and agreeable than my writings.

What terrified me will terrify others; and I need only describe the spectre which had haunted my midnight pillow.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.

A slavish bondage to parents cramps every faculty of the mind.