“There are misfortunes in life that no one will accept; people would rather believe in the supernatural and the impossible.”

“Misfortune does not help us to believe. ”

“And how did this misfortune occur?" inquired the latter, resuming the interrupted conversation.”

“Melancholy in a capitalist, like the appearance of a comet, presages some misfortune to the world.”

“Truly generous men are always ready to become sympathetic when their enemy’s misfortune surpasses the limits of their hatred.”

“......When one loves, one is only too ready to believe one's love returned.”

“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.”