Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

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.

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

There is no friendship that cares about an overheard secret.

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.

When a man resolves to avenge himself, he should first of all tear out the heart from his breast.

So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination.