From My Infancy I Was Imbued With

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

Sorrow Only Increased With Knowledge.

If The Study To Which You Apply Yourself Has A Tendency To Weaken Your Affections And To Destroy Your Taste For Those Simple Pleasures In Which No Alloy Can Possibly Mix, Then That Study Is Certainly Unlawful, That Is To Say, Not Befitting The Human Mind.

And The Violet Lay Dead While The Odour Flew On The Wings Of The Wind O'er The Waters Blue.

After Days And Nights Of Incredible Labor And Fatigue, I Succeeded In Discovering The Cause Of Generation And Life. Nay, More, I Became Myself Capable Of Bestowing Animation Upon Lifeless Matter.