We only see clearly when we have reached the depths of woe.

Excess always carries it's own retributions.

What we love once, we love forever. Shall there be joy in heaven over those who repent, yet no forgiveness for them upon earth? --"Wanda

nothing is so pleasant ... as to display your worldly wisdom in epigram and dissertation, but it is a trifle tedious to hear another person display theirs.

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the vainest.

One must pray first, but afterwards one must help oneself. God does not care for cowards.

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