“When he comes to the doorhe always looks mocking and half-way angry.You can see he has sympathy for nothing.It's written on his foreheadthat he can love no one.”

“The greatest evil that can befall man is that he should come to think ill of himself.”

“When we treat man as he is we make him worse than he is. When we treat him as if he already was what he potentially could be We make him what he should be.”

“Men grieve [Mephistopheles] so with the days of their lamenting, [he] even hate[s] to plague them with [his] torments.”

“I know I can trust in my heart…that she…dare I, can I express heaven in a few words? That she loves me.”

“When a nation which has long groaned under the intolerable yoke of a tyrant rises at last and throws off its chains, do you call that weakness? The man who, to rescue his house from the flames, finds his physical strength redoubled, so that he lifts burdens with ease which in the absence of excitement he could scarcely move; he who under the rage of an insult attacks and puts to flight half a score of his enemies,—are such persons to be called weak? My good friend, if resistance be strength, how can the highest degree of resistance be a weakness?”

“Nothing shows a man's character more than what he laughs at.”