I can promise to be sincere, but I cannot promise to be impartial.
Strike the dog dead, it's but a critic!
Stupidity is without anxiety.
Look at a man the way he is and he only becomes worse, but look at him as if he were what he could be, then he becomes what he should be.
Our friends show us what we can do; our enemies teach us what we must do.
I am part of the part that once was everything, Part of the darkness which gave birth to light… Mephistopheles, from Faust.