The earth does not want new continents, but new men.
I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.
We may brave human laws, but we cannot resist natural ones.
The chance which now seems lost may present itself at the last moment.
Solitude, isolation, are painful things and beyond human endurance.
Poets are like proverbs: you can always find one to contradict another.
Death, the beginning of eternal things, is only the end of earthly cares.
You cannot oppose reasoning to pride, the principal of all the vices, since, by its very nature, the proud man refuses to listen to it.
While there is life there is hope.
While his heart still beats, while his flesh still moves, I cannot accept that a being endowed with will-power can give in to despair.
When you bring a man two millions of money, you need have but little fear that you will not be well received.
When the mind once allows a doubt to gain entrance, the value of deeds performed grow less, their character changes, we forget the past and dread the future.