"The forests have taught man liberty."

"I once spoke to my aunt of the vow I had taken, the solemn promise I had made to myself that I would discover the mur…"

"I was suddenly carried away by rage to the point of losing all control over my frenzy. "Ah!" I cried, "since you will…"

"I seized the sheet of paper; the lines were written upon it in characters rather larger than usual. How it shook in m…"

"Was I saved? Was I lost? All depended on the moment at which somebody might go into my stepfather's room. If my mothe…"

"The story he told me was "per sfogarsi," as Bayle loved to say; his idea was that I would not discover the real hero.…"

"I had to take the necessary steps to prevent this alleged suicide from getting known, to see the commissary of police…"

"Is there any God, any justice, is there either good or evil? None, none, none, none! There is nothing but a pitiless …"

"You, who know better than any one the motley world of cosmopolites, understand why I have confined myself to painting…"

"La plus cruelle vengeance d'une femme est quelquefois de nous rester fidèle."