He who ruleth the raging of the sea, knows also how to check the designs of the ungodly. I submit myself with reverence to His Holy Will. O Abner, I fear my God, and I fear none but Him.

Small crimes always precede great crimes. Whoever has been able to transgress the limits set by law may afterwards violate the most sacred rights; crime, like virtue, has its degrees, and never have we seen timid innocence pass suddenly to extreme licentiousness.

What does it matter if, by chance, a little vile blood be spilled?

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

Love is not dumb. The heart speaks many ways.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.