“People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.”

“My experience of life is that it is not divided up into genres; it’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical, science-fiction cowboy detective novel. You know, with a bit of pornography if you're lucky.”

"The cloud of caring for nothing, which overshadowed him with such a fatal darkness, was very rarely pierced by the light within him."

"I do not know the American gentleman, God forgive me for putting two such words together."

"It's in vain to recall the past, unless it works some influence upon the present."

"I had considered how the things that never happen, are often as much realities to us, in their effects, as those that are accomplished."

"We forge the chains we wear in life."

"Please, sir, I want some more."

"I only ask to be free, the butterflies are free."

"Never," said my aunt, "be mean in anything; never be false; never be cruel. Avoid those three vices, Trot, and I can always be hopeful of you."

"I must do something or I shall wear my heart away..."

"And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day."

"Although a skillful flatterer is a most delightful companion if you have him all to yourself, his taste becomes very doubtful when he takes to complimenting other people."

"I never could have done what I have done, without the habits of punctuality, order, and diligence, without the determination to concentrate myself on one object at a time."

"Liberty, equality, fraternity, or death; - the last, much the easiest to bestow, O Guillotine!"

"[Credit is a system whereby] a person who can't pay, gets another person who can't pay, to guarantee that he can pay."

"Vengeance and retribution require a long time; it is the rule."

"There is prodigious strength in sorrow and despair."

"A day wasted on others is not wasted on one's self."

"So, throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise."

"It is because I think so much of warm and sensitive hearts, that I would spare them from being wounded."

"Family not only need to consist of merely those whom we share blood, but also for those whom we'd give blood."

"Spring is the time of year when it is summer in the sun and winter in the shade."

"You are in every line I have ever read."