For the happy man prayer is only a jumble of words, until the day when sorrow comes to explain to him the sublime language by means of which he speaks to God.

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.

Love is the most selfish of all the passions.

And now, farewell to kindness, humanity and gratitude... I have substituted myself for Providence in rewarding the good; may the God of vengeance now yield me His place to punish the wicked.

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

You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.

Hatred is blind; rage carries you away; and he who pours out vengeance runs the risk of tasting a bitter draught.