The privilege of feeling at home everywhere belongs only to kings, wolves and robbers.

Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact.

Woman is stronger by virtue of her feelings than man by virtue of his power.

Good befalls us while we sleep, sometimes.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

The causes that govern the heart appear to be wholly alien to the results achieved. Are the forces that moved a desperate criminal the same that fill a martyr with pride, as both mount the scaffold?

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...