There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.

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

in prosperity prayers seem but a mere medley of words, until misfortune comes and the unhappy sufferer first understands the meaning of the sublime language in which he invokes the pity of heaven!

Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

I hate this life of the fashionable world, always ordered, measured, ruled, like our music-paper. What I have always wished for, desired, and coveted, is the life of an artist, free and independent, relying only on my own resources, and accountable only to myself.