A just chastisement may benefit a man, though it seldom does; but an unjust one changes all his blood to gall.

Take hope from the heart of man, and you make him a beast of prey.

I have known men who have been sold and bought a hundred times, who have only got very fat and very comfortable in the process of exchange.

Most crimes are sanctioned in some form or other when they take grand names.

Fame has only the span of the day, they say. But to live in the hearts of people-that is worth something.

The fire of true enthusiasm is like the fires of Baku, which no water can ever quench, and which burn steadily on from night to day, and year to year, because their well-spring is eternal.

I do not wish to be a coward like the father of mankind and throw the blame upon a woman.