Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here."

If you wish to glimpse inside a human soul and get to know a man ... just watch him laugh. If he laughs well, he's a good man.

A real gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.

Even if we are occupied with important things and even if we attain honour or fall into misfortune, still let us remember how good it once was here, when we were all together united by a good and kind feeling which made us perhaps better than we are.

That's just the point: an honest and sensitive man opens his heart, and the man of business goes on eating - and then he eats you up.

No, evidently habit means a lot. The devil knows what habit can do to a person.

--you wouldn't have hurt me like this for nothing. So what have I done? How have I wronged you? Tell me.