You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

For all evils there are two remedies - time and silence.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

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.

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

I am strong against everything, except against the death of those I love. He who dies gains; he who sees others die loses.

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