Time, dear friend, time brings round opportunity; opportunity is the martingale of man. The more we have ventured the more we gain, when we know how to wait.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

In love, writing is dangerous, not to mention pointless.

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.

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.

I have always had more dread of a pen, a bottle of ink, and a sheet of paper than of a sword or pistol.