To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know.

That man is truly free who desires what he is able to perform, and does what he desires.

If there is in this world a well-attested account, it is that of vampires. Nothing is lacking: official reports, affidavits of well-known people, of surgeons, of priests, of magistrates; the judicial proof is most complete. And with all that, who is there who believes in vampires?

We lose all that time which we might employ better.

Girls must be thwarted early in life.

I may not be better than other people, but at least I'm different.

The truths of the Scriptures are so marked and inimitable, that the inventor would be more of a miraculous character than the hero.