"You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks."

"Friendship is but a name; I love nobody. I do not even love my brothers. Perhaps Joseph, a little, from habit and because he is my elder."

"I hope before long to crush you in my arms and cover you with a million kisses burning as though beneath the equator."

"The hand that gives is above the hand that takes."

"The human mind is far more subject to superstition than to reason."