“To save a man and thereby to spare a father's agony and a mother's feelings is not to do a noble deed, it is but an act of humanity.”
“Rogues are preferable to imbeciles because sometimes they take a rest.”
“I prefer the wicked rather than the foolish. The wicked sometimes rest.”
“Sometimes one has suffered enough to have the right to never say: I am too happy.”
“There are two ways of seeing: with the body and with the soul. The body's sight can sometimes forget, but the soul remembers forever.”
“God may sometimes appear to forget, when his justice is resting; but the time always comes when he remembers...”