There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.

Speak of a wolf and you see his tail!

Nothing is more seductive for a man than his freedom of conscience, but nothing is a greater cause of suffering.

Dreams seem to be spurred on not by reason but by desire, not by the head but by the heart, and yet what complicated tricks my reason has played sometimes in dreams.

Remember that you must never sell your soul. Never accept payment in advance.... Never give a work to the printer before it is finished. This is the worst thing you can do.... It constitutes the murder of your own ideas.

And though I suffer for you, yet it eases my heart to suffer for you.

They won't let me ... I can't be ... good!