Here is your final lesson - do not commit the crime for which you now serve the sentence. God said, "Vengeance is mine." [...] He believes in you.

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

Yet man will never be perfect until he learns to create and destroy; he does know how to destroy, and that is half the battle.

...joy takes a strange effect at times, it seems to oppress us almost the same as sorrow.

In all times, and all countries especially in those countries which are divided within by religious faith, there are always fanatics who will be well contented to be regarded as martyrs.

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

To be a woman condemned to a wretched and disgraceful punishment is no impediment to beauty, but it is an insurmountable obstacle to power. Like all persons of real genius, her ladyship well knew what accorded with her nature and her means. Poverty disgusted her -subjection deprived her of two-thirds of her greatness. Her ladyship was only a queen amongst queens: the enjoyment of satisfied pride was essential to her sway. To command beings of an inferior nature, was, to her, rather a humiliation than a pleasure.