God is always the last resource.

What I’ve loved most after you, is myself: that is, my dignity and that strength which made me superior to other men. That Strength was my life. You’ve broken it with a word, so I must die.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

It was like the eve of a battle; the hearts beat, the eyes laughed, and they felft that the life they were perhaps going to lose, was after all, a good thing.

When you compare the sorrows of real life to the pleasures of the imaginary one, you will never want to live again, only to dream forever.

It is not the tree that forsakes the flower, but the flower that forsakes the tree.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.