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

“Excessive suffering brings with it a kind of dull insensibility and stupor....”

“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,...”

“A good friend will help you move, but a true friend will help you move a body.”

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

“The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.”

“Let me tell ya. You gotta pay attention to signs. When life reaches out with a moment like this it's a sin if you don't reach back... I'm telling you.”

“The two go hand in hand like a dance: chance flirts with necessity, randomness with determinism. To be sure, it is from this interchange that novelty and creativity arise in Nature, thereby yieldin...”

“He was, however, unable to give much prolonged or continuous thought to anything that evening , or to concentrate on any one idea; and anyway, even if he had been able to, he would not have found h...”

“Nature can counsel nothing but crime.”

“A criminal remains a criminal whether he uses a convict's suit or a monarch's crown.”