We have really everything in common with America nowadays, except, of course, language.

The vilest deeds like poison weeds Bloom well in prison air; It is only what is good in man That wastes and withers there.

Marco Polo had seen the inhabitants of Zipangu place rose-colored pearls in the mouths of the dead. A sea-monster had been enamoured of the pearl that the diver brought to King Perozes, and had slain the thief, and mourned for seven moons over its loss.

Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.

Disobedience is man's original virtue.

As one reads history ... one is absolutely sickened, not by the crimes that the wicked have committed, but by the punishments that the good have inflicted.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.