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

How did I escape? With difficulty. How did I plan this moment? With pleasure!

So he went down, smiling sceptically and mutter the final word in human wisdom: 'Perhaps!

I have been taken by Satan into the highest mountain in the earth, and when there he said he to me, ‘Child of earth, what wouldst thou have to make thee adore me?’ I replied, ‘Listen, I wish to be Providence myself, for I feel that the most beautiful, noblest, most sublime thing in the world, is to recompense and punish.

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.