The different accidents of life are not so changeable as the feelings of human nature. - Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Every political good carried to the extreme must be productive of evil.

The fallen angel becomes a malignant devil.

I confess that neither the structure of language, nor the code of governments, nor the politics of various states possessed attractions for me. It was the secrets of heaven and earth that I desired to learn; and whether it was the outward substance of things or the inner spirit of nature and the mysterious soul of man that occupied me, still my inquiries were directed to the metaphysical, or in its highest sense, the physical secrets of the world.