Remember that I have power; you believe yourself miserable, but I can make you so wretched that the light of day will be hateful to you. You are my creator, but I am your master--obey!

¿ Era el hombre, efectivamente, tan poderoso, tan virtuoso y magnífico, y no obstante tan depravado y tan bajo? Unas veces parecía un mero vástago del principio del mal; otras,lo más noble y divino que cabe imaginar.

If such lovely creatures were miserable, it was less strange that I, an imperfect and solitary being. should be wretched.

I do not know,' said the man, 'what the custom of the English may be; but it is the custom of the Irish to hate villains.

My present situation was one in which all voluntary thought was swallowed up and lost.

Nada hay más doloroso para el espíritu humano, tras la excitación que provoca la rápida sucesión de los acontecimientos, como esa calma mortal de apatía y certidumbre que la sigue, y priva al alma de toda esperanza y temor.

I was myself when young, but that wears out in a very short time.

I feel my heart glow with an enthusiasm which elevates me to heaven, for nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Aprecio la vida, aunque sólo sea una sucesión de angustias, y la defenderé.