No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

He who's down one day can be up the next, unless he really wants to stay in bed, that is.

The most difficult character in comedy is that of the fool, and he must be no simpleton that plays that part.

She wanted, with her fickleness, to make my destruction constant; I want, by trying to destroy myself, to satisfy her desire.

Necessity urges desperate measures.

Three things too much, and three too little are pernicious to man; to speak much, and know little; to spend much, and have little; to presume much, and be worth little.

A knight errant who turns mad for a reason deserves neither merit nor thanks. The thing is to do it without cause