So, preferring death to capture, I accomplished the most astonishing deeds, and which, more then once, showed me that the too great care we take of our bodies is the only obstacle to the sucess of those projects which require rapid decision, and vigorous and determined execution. In reality, when you have once devoted your life to your enterprises, you are no longer the equal of other men, or, rather, other men are no longer your equals, and whosoever has taken this resolution, feels his strength and resources doubled.

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

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

There are people who are willing to suffer and swallow their tears at leisure, and God will no doubt reward them in heaven for their resignation; but those who have the will to struggle strike back at fate in retaliation for the blows they receive.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.