What would you not have accomplished if you had been free?" "Possibly nothing at all; the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; misfortune is needed to bring to light the treasures of the human intellect. Compression is needed to explode gunpowder. Captivity has brought my mental faculties to a focus; and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced — from electricity, lightning, from lightning, illumination.

He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

I'm sure you're very nice, but you'd be even nicer if you went away.

I am hungry, feed me; I am bored, amuse me.

Pure love and suspicion cannot dwell together: at the door where the latter enters, the former makes its exit.

If you wish to discover the guilty person, first find out to whom the crime might be useful.