And like a wind shall I one day blow amongst them and with my spirit take away their soul's breath: thus my future wills it.

A small revenge is more human than no revenge at all.

It is not to everyone's taste that truth should be pronounced pleasant. But at least let no one believe that error becomes truth when it is pronounced unpleasant.

Among austere men intimacy involves shame--and is something precious.

The wittiest authors evoke a barely perceptible smile.

I am a forest, and a night of dark trees: but he who is not afraid of my darkness, will find banks full of roses under my cypresses.

In a friend one should have ones best enemy. You should be closest to him with your heart when you resist him.