It is very important in life to know when your cue comes.

The Bible is very easy to understand. But we Christians are a bunch of scheming swindlers. We pretend to be unable to understand it because we know very well that the minute we understand, we are obliged to act accordingly.

On the secretly blushing cheek is reflected the glow of the heart

The reign of the tyrant ends with his death, and the reign of the martyr starts with it.

In addition to my other numerous acquaintances, I have one more intimate confidant. ... My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known - no wonder, then, that I return the love.

Adversity draws men together and produces beauty and harmony in life's relationships, just as the cold of winter produces ice-flowers on the window-panes, which vanish with the warmth.

Dread is a sympathetic antipathy and an antipathetic sympathy.