I Beheld The Wretch-the Miserable Monster Whom

The World To Me Was A Secret, Which I Desired To Discover; To Her It Was A Vacancy, Which She Sought To People With Imaginations Of Her Own.

Nothing Is So Painful To The Human Mind As A Great And Sudden Change.

But Success Shall Crown My Endeavours. Wherefore Not? Thus Far I Have Gone, Tracking A Secure Way Over The Pathless Seas: The Very Stars Themselves Being Witnesses And Testimonies Of My Triumph. Why Not Still Proceed Over The Untamed Yet Obedient Element? What Can Stop The Determined Heart And Resolved Will Of Man?

It Was The Secrets Of Heaven And Earth That I Desired To Learn.

I, A Miserable Wretch, Haunted By A Curse That Shut Up Every Avenue To Enjoyment.