Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.

Life is very tenacious in these lawyers.

I know what happiness and what despair are, and I never make a jest of such feelings. Take it, then, but in exchange —

God is always the last resource.

What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

To learn is not to know; there are the learners and the learned. Memory makes the one, philosophy the others.

I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?