"How odd and inexplicable are the paths of destiny. What intention did Providence have by ruining the one who it has raised up, and raising up the one who it has ruined?"

"The wretched and the miserable should turn to their fellow sufferers rather than to the happy for sympathy and advice."

"Life is a storm, my young friend. You will bask in the sunlight one moment, be shattered on the rocks the next. What makes you a man is what you do when that storm comes. You must look in the storm's …"

"The more I see of men, the more I admire dogs."

"Love is the most powerful and dangerous of all emotions."