1 I could offer no explanation of them, but their truth in part relieved the burden of my mysterious woe.
2 This faith gives a solemnity to his reveries that render them to me almost as imposing and interesting as truth.
3 I am not mad," I cried energetically; "the sun and the heavens, who have viewed my operations, can bear witness of my truth.
4 Sir Isaac Newton is said to have avowed that he felt like a child picking up shells beside the great and unexplored ocean of truth.
5 It is indeed a tale so strange that I should fear you would not credit it were there not something in truth which, however wonderful, forces conviction.
6 Before I depart I will give them to you; they will prove the truth of my tale; but at present, as the sun is already far declined, I shall only have time to repeat the substance of them to you.
7 As I heard it, the whole truth rushed into my mind, my arms dropped, the motion of every muscle and fibre was suspended; I could feel the blood trickling in my veins and tingling in the extremities of my limbs.
8 His tale is connected and told with an appearance of the simplest truth, yet I own to you that the letters of Felix and Safie, which he showed me, and the apparition of the monster seen from our ship, brought to me a greater conviction of the truth of his narrative than his asseverations, however earnest and connected.