“Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.”

“...chance is sometimes a wonderful accomplice in crime.”

“Vengeance is a delicious fruit, which must be allowed to ripen in order that it may be fully enjoyed.”

“It is at the family fireside, often under the shelter of the law itself, that the real tragedies of life are acted; in these days traitors wear gloves, scoundrels cloak themselves in public esteem,...”

“Nothing forces us to knowWhat we do not want to knowExcept pain”

“Doesn't it seem that it is always by chance that these things happen, or is it because of the generosity of a shared knowledge of suffering that allows for it?”

“Wisdom is not making life any harder than it has to be.”