I have no will, unless it be the will never to decide. I have been so overwhelmed by the many storms that have broken over my head, that I am become passive in the hands of the Almighty, like a sparrow in the talons of an eagle. I live, because it is not ordained for me to die.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.

Youth is a blossom whose fruit is love; happy is he who plucks it after watching it slowly ripen.

It is almost as difficult to keep a first class person in a fourth class job, as it is to keep a fourth class person in a first class job.