True, I have raped history, but it has produced some beautiful offspring.

Within six months, if I am not dead, I shall have seen you again, madam--even if I have to overturn the world.

Every individual, from the highest to the lowest degree, has his place in the ladder of social life, and around him swirls a little world of interests, composed of stormy passions and conflicting atoms

Those born to wealth, and who have the means of gratifying every wish, know not what is the real happiness of life, just as those who have been tossed on the stormy waters of the ocean on a few frail planks can alone realize the blessings of fair weather.

God is merciful to all, as he has been to you; he is first a father, then a judge.

For there are two distinct sorts of ideas: Those that proceed from the head and those that emanate from the heart.

Moral wounds have this peculiarity - they may be hidden, but they never close; always painful, always ready to bleed when touched, they remain fresh and open in the heart.