It is fair to despise a cowardly man, but the female sex is strongest when it's weak.

Swear words and profanities are mere abbreviations of speech, similar to the abbreviations in writing.

History is the zoology of the human race.

Genius resembles a bell; in order to ring it must be suspended into pure air, and when a foreign body touches it, its joyful toneis silenced.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

The courts used to be, fair and square, the avengers of secular crimes; but nowadays they demand respect even for the criminal.

Human life, old and young, takes place between hope and remembrance. The young man sees all the gates to his desires open, and the old man remembers--his hopes.