We are always in a hurry to be happy...; for when we have suffered a long time, we have great difficulty in believing in good fortune.

I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.

Ah," said the jailer, "do not always brood over what is impossible, or you will be mad in a fortnight.

In every country where independence has taken the place of liberty, the first desire of a manly heart is to possess a weapon which at once renders him capable of defence or attack, and, by rendering its owner fearsome, makes him feared.

Your life story is a novel; and people, though they love novels wound between two yellow paper covers, are oddly suspicious of those which come to them in living vellum.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

It is the infirmity of our nature always to believe ourselves much more unhappy than those who groan by our sides!