There is neither happiness nor misery in the world; there is only the comparison of one state with another, nothing more. He who has felt the deepest grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.

Wait and hope!

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

For in those tacit understandings which maintain the bond of family union, the mother is really the mistress of her daughter only upon the condition of continually presenting herself to her as a model of wisdom and type of perfection.

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

Be happy, noble heart, be blessed for all the good thou hast done and wilt do hereafter, and let my gratitude remain in obscurity like your good deeds.

Besides we are men, and after all it is our business to risk our lives.