He's right: They have to put madmen with madmen.

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

It is only the dead who do not return.

The custom and fashion of today will be the awkwardness and outrage of tomorrow - so arbitrary are these transient laws.

We must never expect discretion in first love: it is accompanied by such excessive joy that unless the joy is allowed to overflow, it will choke you.

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

We are never quits with those who oblige us," was Dantes' reply; "for when we do not owe them money, we owe them gratitude.