Cling tooth and nail to the following rule: Not to give in to adversity, never to trust prosperity, and always to take full note of fortune's habit of behaving just as she pleases, treating her as if she were actually going to do everything it is in her power to do. Whatever you have been expecting for some time comes as less of a shock.

I am not born from a single place. My country is the whole world.

The language of truth is unvarnished enough.

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

Humanity is fortunate, because no man is unhappy except by his own fault.

You cease to be afraid when you cease to hope; for hope is accompanied by fear.

No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.