I saw the Count lying within the box upon the earth, some of which the rude falling from the cart had scattered over him. He was deathly pale, just like a waxen image, and the red eyes glared with the horrible vindictive look which I knew so well.

For life be, after all, only a waitin' for somethin' else than what we're doin'; and death be all that we can rightly depend on.

I'm a hard nut to crack, and I take it standing up.

I am longing to be with you, and by the sea, where we can talk together freely and build our castles in the air.

We learn of great things by little experiences.

But a stranger in a strange land, he is no one. Men know him not, and to know not is to care not for.

Do you not think that there are things which you cannot understand, and yet which are; that some people see things that others cannot? But there are things old and new which must not be contemplate by men´s eyes, because they know -or think they know- some things which other men have told them. Ah, it is the fault of our science that it wants to explain all; and if it explain not, then it says there is nothing to explain.