He is noble who both feels and acts nobly.

A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman.

The real madness probably is not another thing that the wisdom itself that, tired of discovering the shames of the world, has taken the intelligent resolution to become mad

Every period of time is a sphinx that throws itself into the abyss as soon as its riddle has been solved.

It is only kindred griefs that draw forth our tears, and each weeps really for himself.

My heart resembles the ocean; has storm, and ebb and flow; and many a beautiful pearl lies hid in its depths below.

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.