The Merit Of All Things Lies In

Sometimes One Has Suffered Enough To Have The Right To Never Say: I Am Too Happy.

I Know What Happiness And What Despair Are, And I Never Make A Jest Of Such Feelings. Take It, Then, But In Exchange —

So Heavy Is The Chain Of Wedlock That It Needs Two To Carry It, And Sometimes Three.

What Would You Not Have Accomplished If You Had Been Free?" "possibly Nothing At All; The Overflow Of My Brain Would Probably, In A State Of Freedom, Have Evaporated In A Thousand Follies; Misfortune Is Needed To Bring To Light The Treasures Of The Human Intellect. Compression Is Needed To Explode Gunpowder. Captivity Has Brought My Mental Faculties To A Focus; And You Are Well Aware That From The Collision Of Clouds Electricity Is Produced — From Electricity, Lightning, From Lightning, Illumination.

Life Is A Storm, My Young Friend. You Will Bask In The Sunlight One Moment, Be Shattered On The Rocks The Next. What Makes You A Man Is What You Do When That Storm Comes.