The man who has learned to triumph over sorrow wears his miseries as though they were sacred fillets upon his brow; and nothing is so entirely admirable as a man bravely wretched.

Loyalty is the holiest good in the human heart.

The thing that matters is not what you bear, but how you bear it

Crime requires further crime to conceal it.

Poverty with joy isn't poverty at all. The poor man is not one who has little, but one who hankers after more.

Such as the chain of causes we call Fate, such is the chain of wishes: one links on to another; the whole man is bound in the chain of wishing for ever.

Mercy often inflicts death.