You Are Very Amiable, No Doubt, But

Darling, Replied Valentine, Has Not The Count Just Told Us That All Human Wisdom Was Contained In These Two Words,- "wait And Hope"?

A Person Who Doubts Himself Is Like A Man Who Would Enlist In The Ranks Of His Enemies And Bear Arms Against Himself.

If God Were Suddenly Condemned To Live The Life Which He Has Inflicted Upon Men, He Would Kill Himself.

What Would You Not Have Accomplished If You Had Been Free?" "possibly Nothing At All; The Overflow Of My Brain Would Probably, In A State Of Freedom, Have Evaporated In A Thousand Follies; Misfortune Is Needed To Bring To Light The Treasures Of The Human Intellect. Compression Is Needed To Explode Gunpowder. Captivity Has Brought My Mental Faculties To A Focus; And You Are Well Aware That From The Collision Of Clouds Electricity Is Produced — From Electricity, Lightning, From Lightning, Illumination.

Well, Father, In The Shipwreck Of Life, For Life Is An Eternal Shipwreck Of Our Hopes, I Cast Into The Sea My Useless Encumbrance, That Is All, And I Remain With My Own Will, Disposed To Live Perfectly Alone, And, Consequently, Perfectly Free. (eugenie To Her Father)