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

Your bitter memories still have time to turn into sweet ones.

It is rare that one can see in a little boy the promise of a man, but one can almost always see in a little girl the threat of a woman.

I am a count, not a saint.

Tell the angel who will watch over your life to pray now and then for a man who, like Satan, believed himself for an instant to be equal to God, but who realized in all humility that supreme power and wisdom are in the hands of God alone.

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

A rogue does not laugh in the same way that an honest man does; a hypocrite does not shed the tears of a man of good faith. All falsehood is a mask; and however well made the mask may be, with a little attention we may always succeed in distinguishing it from the true face.