The man who says he has exhausted life generally means that life has exhausted him.

The modern sympathy with invalids is morbid. Illness of any kind is hardly a thing to be encouraged in others.

He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

The only thing that one really knows about human nature is that it changes. Change is the one quality we can predicate of it.

All trials are trials for one's life, just as all sentences are sentences of death.

Dear Prince, I must leave you, but I will never forget you, and next spring I will bring you back two beautiful jewels in place of those you have given away. The ruby shall be redder than a red rose, and the sapphire shall be as blue as the great sea.

Society takes upon itself the right to inflict appalling punishment on the individual, but it also has the supreme vice of shallowness, and fails to realize what it has done. When the man's punishment is over, it leaves him to himself; that is to say, it abandons him at the very moment when its highest duty towards him begins.