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?

Society bristles with enigmas which look hard to solve. It is a perfect maze of intrigue.

As soon as coffee is in your stomach, there is a general commotion. Ideas begin to move…similes arise, the paper is covered. Coffee is your ally and writing ceases to be a struggle.

At fifteen, beauty and talent do not exist; there can only be promise of the coming woman.

Virtue is not a thing you can have by halves; it is or it is not.

The day will dawn when Europe will believe only in the man who tramples her underfoot.

Lovers have a way of using this word "nothing" which implies exactly the opposite.