Oh! The good times when we were so unhappy.

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

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

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

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

I do not cling to life sufficiently to fear death.

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