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.

Great is truth. Fire cannot burn it nor water drown it.

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!

...know you not that you are my sun by day, and my star by night? By my faith! I was in deepest darkness till you appeared and illuminated all.

Often we pass beside happiness without seeing it, without looking at it, or even if we have seen and looked at it, without recognizing it.

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.

On what slender threads do life and fortune hang.