Misfortune does not help us to believe.

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!

Life is a storm. One minute you will bathe under the sun and the next you will be shattered upon the rocks. That's when you shout, "Do your worst, for I will do mine!" and you will be remembered forever.

For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

God is full of mercy for everyone, as He has been towards you. He is a father before He is a judge.

To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.

True love always makes a man better, no matter who the woman is that inspires it.