A person who doubts himself is like a man who would enlist in the ranks of his enemies and bear arms against himself.

Unfortunates, who ought to begin with God, do not have any hope in him till they have exhausted all other means of deliverance.

Woman is sacred; the woman one loves is holy.

...for, however all other feelings may be withered in a woman's nature, there is always one bright smiling spot in the maternal breast, and that is where a dearly-beloved child is concerned.

Does the open wound in another's breast soften the pain of the gaping wound in our own? Or does the blood which is welling from another man's side staunch that which is pouring from our own? Does the general anguish of our fellow creatures lessen our own private and particular anguish? No, no, each suffers on his own account, each struggles with his own grief, each sheds his own tears.

If God were suddenly condemned to live the life which He has inflicted upon men, He would kill Himself.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me