Never laugh at those who suffer; suffer sometimes those who laugh.

...But listen, there will be more joy in heaven over the tears of a repentant sinner than over the white robes of a hundred just men.

A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in.

A creditor is worse than a slave-owner; for the master owns only your person, but a creditor owns your dignity, and can command it.

Revolution is the larva of civilization.

Thus, during those nineteen years of torture and slavery, did this soul rise and fall at the same time. Light entered on the one side, and darkness on the other.

Emergencies have always been necessary to progress. It was darkness which produced the lamp. It was fog that produced the compass. It was hunger that drove us to exploration. And it took a depression to teach us the real value of a job.