The force of character is cumulative.

Law of Contrariness: Our chief want in life is somebody who shall make us do what we can. Having found them, we shall then hate them for it.

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

I pack my trunk, embrace my friends, embark on the sea and at last wake up in Naples, and there beside me is the stern fact, the sad self, unrelenting, identical, that I fled from.

Every revolution was first a thought in one man's mind; and when the same thought occurs to another man, it is the key to that era.

No matter how often defeated, you are born to victory.

Oh, be my friend, and teach me to be thine!