In business, sir, one has no friends, only correspondents.

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.

(...) the tree forsakes not the flower: the flower falls from the tree.

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

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

All for one and one for all, united we stand divided we fall.

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