The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

I must see her and press her to my heart. I love her to the point of madness, and I cannot continue to be separated from her. If she no longer loved me, I would have nothing left to do on earth.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

Someone says, "Boys will be boys"; he forgot to add, "Boys will be men

Do you know what astonished me most in the world? The inability of force to create anything. In the long run, the sword is always beaten by the spirit.